Template befor Definition

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mark Eisenblaetter wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 10:38 AM, Mark Eisenblaetter <mark.eisenblaetter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2008 10:07 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Please don't top-post. It makes it hard to follow the discussion,
>>> especially when you're top-posting to an answer that wasn't top-
>>> posted. Anyways...
>>>
>>> Mark Eisenblaetter wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> sorry for the latye replay,
>>>>
>>>> Then I will have to much templates, because i will need for every
>>>> kombination of args a new template.
>>>>
>>>> For example by check_http I will need a template vor every
>>> website/service i
>>>> want to check or for every disk with diffrend warning and Critival
>>>> threshosld.
>>>>
>>>> Thats not so practicable.
>>>>
>>> Originally you wrote:
>>>>>> so it would be great if i can say in the template use the
>>> check_command
>>>>>> (check_dummy) defined in the template and not that defined in the
>>> Host.
>>> To which I replied:
>>>>> That's what not setting anything in the object itself is for. If you
>>> don't
>>>>> have a check_command in the host object, it will use the one from the
>>>>> template.
>>>>>
>>> In other words, if you want a particular object to inherit the value
>>> from
>>> the template, simply don't set that value in the object. There was no
>>> other question-like statement in your original mail.
>>>
>> Ok, then my first mail was not so clear I hoped.
>>
>> I was thinking of that as a new feature, to minimize the templatework.
>>
>>
> Ok it seems that i am the only one that would like this feature.
> 
> Or do i miss one way to handle that situation without having a template for
> nearly every check?
> 

You still have not clarified your original email. Only discovered that it's
not clear enough. If you can manage that, I'm sure there's already a solution
in Nagios for you.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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