[txemi2 at euskalnet.net: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#294983: wishlist: not require alias and host_name in hosts.cfg]

[Andreas Ericsson]

Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> 
> using templates you can define a default alias - alias is only used if 
> you need it in notifications...
> 

Indeed. Perhaps
define host{
   name default-host-template
   ....
   alias $HOSTNAME$
   address $HOSTNAME$
   ...
}

might work.

> however host_names have to be unique and the address field can contain 
> more than one address - so they have to be entered
> 

No. Addresses are also unique, and if the short form (as determined by 
search and domain directives in /etc/resolv.conf) is entered as 
host_name that's all you really need for the host.

> also 1.x is in a bug fix mode only
> development/features are in 2.x
> 
> It might be simpler to write a pre-init script that parses the config 
> and writes out the address if needed from the hostname.
> 

No. It would indeed be very simple to add this functionality to the core 
code (2 extra if()'s in the xodtemplate_add_host() function). I've 
suggested it myself for the alias variable which is only required for 
the cgi's.

> -sg
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, sean finney wrote:
> 
>> hi nagios-devel,
>>
>> we have a feature request from a user that i think is pretty reasonable
>> and not too big an effort to accomplish.  basically, nagios requires
>> that all host objects have a host_name, address, and alias attribute.
>>
>> the user requested that as a default, if only the host_name is provided
>> that it be used to derive the other two attributes.
>>
>> btw, this is for the 1.x cvs branch.
>>
>> thoughts?  comments?
>>
>>     sean finney
>>     (debian nagios package maintainer)
>>
>> ps - i would appreciate it if you would maintain the CC field so that
>>     further correspondance is kept with the bug record.
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from txemi <txemi2 at euskalnet.net> -----
>>
>> From: txemi <txemi2 at euskalnet.net>
>> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
>> Subject: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#294983: wishlist: not require alias 
>> and host_name in hosts.cfg
>> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:24:29 +0100
>>
>> Package: nagios
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> wishlist: not require alias and host_name in hosts.cfg
>>
>> Most boring thing of setting up nagios is writting big configuration 
>> files.
>> But some little changes could in my opinion short and increase 
>> readability of this files.
>>
>> In my hosts.cfg I have a lot of sections like this:
>>
>> define host{
>>  use my-generic-host
>>  host_name myhost.com
>>  alias myhost.com
>>  address myhost.com
>>  check_command check_ssh
>> }
>>
>> In most of my hosts host_name is equal to alias and address, so it 
>> could be written like this:
>>
>> define host{
>>  use my-generic-host
>>  address myhost.com
>>  check_command check_ssh
>> }
>>
>> But it cannot be done as host_name, alias and address are necessary.
>>
>> I would like that in host_name and alias absence they would take 
>> address value. So I could say the same with less text making it easier 
>> to write, read, change, mantain, understand...
>>
>> that is all...
>>
>> txemi <txemi2 at euskalnet.net>
>> http://txemi.webhop.org
>>
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 3.1
>>  APT prefers unstable
>>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
>> Locale: LANG=es_ES at euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
>>
>>
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>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>
>>
> 

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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