migration from nagios2 => nagios3 ; host name definition

[Mathieu Gagné]

Hi,

Steve Kieu wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> The first question is, what is the meaning of directive  *name*  in host 
> definition? The document says there is no such thing, only *host_name* 
> but if put name there nagios (both 2 and 3 does not complain)

"name" is used to identify a template. You can use templates to 
implement hosts by using "use".

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templaterecursion.html

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Mathieu

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