are host aliases mandatory ? (config check accept it)

[Guy Waugh]

Hello,

They may not be mandatory, but I think they are used in notifications -- for
example, if a contact for the host is to be notified by email if the host
goes down and the host does go down, the message says something like
'<hostalias>/ping is CRITICAL'. I may not be correct here... put in a dummy
host with no alias and see what the notification says.

Cheers,
Guy.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:01 PM, L B <bertignac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  In the documentation, host aliases are in red, so mandatory, but it
> works without configuring them.Can I have problems if I don't define
> them ?
>
> I have a database with host descriptions, and I want to avoid
> duplicating data. If aliases have to be defined, I will just define
> something like "foo"
>
>  Is the error in the config checker or in the documentation ?
>
> Thanks
> --
> L.B.
>
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