Checking for required elements

[Shad L. Lords]

I've been noticing some strange behavior with nagios 3.0b checking for 
required elements.  It appears that some of the checks aren't working as 
expected.  I've been trying to determine when things aren't working so I can 
send some sample configs.

When setting up some hosts I noticed that if I don't have a 
notification_period defined that it doesn't complain or give any warnings. 
In the documentation this field is listed as required.

Also if I specify a host_groups and put in a hostgroup that doesn't exist I 
get an error right after "Reading configuration data..." but it then 
continues on.  At the bottom it will show total error/warnings both at 0 and 
will still load.

Finally in trying to duplicate this I was trying to come up with a minimal 
config and found one that would cause a Segmentation fault during checking 
contacts.  Here it is:

define contact {
        contact_name                    test
        service_notification_commands   command
        host_notification_commands      command
        }

define command {
        command_name    command
        command_line    echo test
        }

define host {
        host_name               host
        max_check_attempts      1
        }

define service {
        service_description     service
        host_name               host
        check_command           command
        max_check_attempts      3
}

Thanks for your great work,

-Shad 


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