Are macros allowed inside custom variables?

[Chris Beattie]

Are macros allowed to be used inside custom variables?  I'm using Nagios 
3.2.3.  I was experimenting with using custom variables in host 
definitions for clusters.  I couldn't figure out if there was a way to 
make this work.

It didn't seem to matter how I escaped the $s or not, whether I used 
$_hostwarn$ or just $_warn$, or if I defined new commands with the 
custom variables in place of $ARGn$.

I already have cluster checks which don't use custom variables and work 
fine, and other service checks which use custom variables from the host 
for parameters and also work fine.

One of my working cluster checks returns this:
CLUSTER OK: dmz_cluster_1: 3 ok, 0 warning, 0 unknown, 0 critical

However, I set up another check for the same cluster using custom 
variables, and it returns this instead:
CLUSTER CRITICAL: dmz_cluster_1_foo: 1 ok, 0 warning, 0 unknown, 0 critical

Here's an example of what I was trying to accomplish:

define host {
	use		esx-server
	name		esx-cluster
	host_groups	esx_clusters
	check_command	check_cluster!host!@$_warn$:!@$_crit$:!$_hostcluster$
	register	0
}

define host {
	use		esx-cluster
	host_name	esx_cluster_1
	alias		esx_cluster_1
	parents		parent1,parent2,parent3
	_warn		1
	_crit		2
	_hostcluster 
$HOSTSTATEID:parent1$,$HOSTSTATEID:parent2$,$HOSTSTATEID:parent3$
	_servicecluster 
$SERVICESTATEID:parent1:Ping$,$SERVICESTATEID:parent2:Ping$,$SERVICESTATEID:parent3:Ping$
}

define service {
	use			standard_service
	host_name		esx_cluster_1
	service_description	cluster_health
	display_name		cluster_health
	check_command		check_cluster!service!@$_warn$:!@$_crit$:!$_servicecluster$
}

define command {
	command_name	check_cluster
	command_line	$USER1$/check_cluster --$ARG1$ --label=$HOSTNAME$ 
--warning=$ARG2$ --critical=$ARG3$ --data=$ARG4$
}


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-Chris

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