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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have been using Netsaint 7.0 for a long time and have
built up quite a large number of non-standard check_snmp statements that
require individual configuration per server. With the new template based
format for Nagios 1.0 my services.cfg file is going to be huge since each
service statement is now about 10 lines instead of one line condensed. This
is going to make maintenance very difficult since I will have to browse tons of
pages to find a service. I don’t want to go back to the old “default”
method since I am completely transferring my system into the new format and don’t
want to be outdated on the offset. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is there a way to manage custom statements like check_snmp
and NSClient Windows service check so that they are not out of control? I
see the benefit for template’s but that seems to be limited to environments
that all the hosts in a network have similar settings. If one server in a
group does not follow a guideline then you have to expand the group to
individual hosts. Can you do hostgroup exemptions in a service
check? Can you issue multiple check_commands in one service statement?</span></font></p>
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