Object Definitions with Multiple Templates

[Greg Pangrazio]

I agree that this would be much simpler, but I have no experience there.

Greg Pangrazio
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tata, Joseph <jtata at gpworldwide.com> wrote:
> It does, but I'm trying to avoid this because I have rather large number configurations in my environment that I need to cover (various clients, platforms, production levels, etc).  Chaining templates to cover every possible combination will be very complicated.
> It would be much easier if I could actually use multiple templates where necessary.
>
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> Joseph P. Tata
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Pangrazio [mailto:pangrazi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:28 AM
> To: Tata, Joseph
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Object Definitions with Multiple Templates
>
> When you define win-host can you put "use prod-host" in the definition?  Then in the host, only put "use win-host"?
>
> Does this do what you are trying to accomplish?
>
> Greg Pangrazio
> pangrazi at gmail.com
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> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Tata, Joseph <jtata at gpworldwide.com> wrote:
>> I am having a problem getting Nagios to accept multiple templates in
>> object definitions.
>>
>> Here is an example.  I have two templates defined in templates.cfg:
>>
>>
>> define host {
>> use                             host #This is my "generic" template
>> with all my basic options in it name
>> prod-host hostgroups                      prod_servers #Production
>> server host group notification_period             24x7 register
>> 0 }
>>
>>
>> define host {
>> use                             host
>> name                            win-host
>> hostgroups                      win_servers #Windows server host group
>> register                        0
>> }
>>
>> Defining an object with either of these templates works fine.  However
>> what I really need to do is:
>>
>> define host {
>> use                             prod-host,win-host
>> name                            windows-server
>> address                           192.1.1.1
>> alias                                     My Windows Production Server
>> }
>>
>> Instead when I run nagios -v I get:
>>
>> "Error: Template 'prod-host,win-host' specified in host definition could
>> not be not found" etc.
>>
>> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html indicates
>> this should be possible, and that the resulting object should have
>> properties of both hosts, but something isn't working.  Am I not
>> defining something correctly or is this possibly a bug/documentation
>> error?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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