$HOSTn$ macros?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Paul Dugas wrote:
> Would it be possible in a future release to support something like a
> $HOSTn$ macro?  I'm running into some larger configs where this would be
> very useful.
> 
> I've got hundreds of CCTV cameras with serial PTZ-control ports and
> analog video outputs.  Their serial ports are connected to various
> terminal servers scattered around a rather large network.  Their video
> outputs are connected to separate video encoders.  
> 
> I have standard hosts definitions for the terminal servers and encoders.
> I have bogus host definitions for the cameras (with check_command set to
> check_none).  The camera hosts are in a hostgroup are so I can provide
> consolidated reports to camera technicians.  
> 
> I currently have a whole slew of service definitions for the cameras
> that actually check the serial ports and video inputs on the real
> devices the camera is connected to.  I'd love to be able to do something
> like this instead:
> 
>> define host{
>>         host_name       cam-844
>>         hostgroups      CAM
>>         host_data       ts-23,12,enc-45,3 # terminal-server host, port, encoder host, port
>>         use             cam-host
>>         }

I believe nagios 3 will have support for randomly named variables in host-objects,
accessible through a macro mechanism. The name of that mechanism eludes me at
present, but if you browse through the changelog for any of the nagios 3 betas you
should find it somewhere there.


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