Inheritance

[Ethan Galstad]

This is great idea.  I have personally run into a few situations where 
this feature would be useful, so I've just posted a patch to CVS for 
inclusion in Nagios 3. :-)

"Additive" string inheritance will work like this:

define host{
	name	template
	hostgroups	all-servers
	}

define host{
	name	linux1
	use	template
	hostgroups	+linux-servers,web-servers
	}

The resulting effective definition will then be:

define host{
	name	linux1
	hostgroups	all-servers,linux-servers,web-servers
	}


Kashif Ali wrote:
> I am not a coder, and to be honest, i appreciate all the work the 
> developers have done. I just wanted to know if there was any one who 
> thought this was a good idea, and maybe if it was already being done for 
> future releases :). I did think it was a good idea, maybe there is 
> better ways of doing what i wanted.
> 
> Thanks anyway :)
> 
> Kashif
> 
> On 08/01/07, *Andreas Ericsson* <ae at op5.se <mailto:ae at op5.se>> wrote:
> 
>     Kashif Ali wrote:
>      > Hey guys,
>      >
>      > A couple of days ago i posted a mail talking about a inheritance
>     and also
>      > described a idea. I havent had a reply, just wondering
>      >
>      > 1) was it a rubbish idea?
> 
>     Not rubbish as such, but I'm not interested in writing this up (or even
>     using the feature), so I stayed silent. If you cook up the code and send
>     it to Ethan he might accept it. I don't think anyone else feels
>     strongly
>     enough about this to write the code for it though.
> 
>      > 2) is this already being done?
>      >
> 
>     If you're not writing the patch, I shouldn't think so.
> 
>     --
>     Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
>     <mailto:andreas.ericsson at op5.se>
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Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: nagios at nagios.org
Website: http://www.nagios.org

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