Two Service Escalation Bugs

[Mark Gius]

I would like to report two bugs in Nagios.  I have confirmed these bugs 
in Nagios 3.06, 3.10, and a build of the CVS checkout at 2:17PM PST May 
6 2009.

The first bug relates to service escalations.  According to the object 
tricks documentation 
(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html), it is valid 
to define a service escalation as follows

    define serviceescalation {
    name                        office-escalation
    register                    0

    host_name                   *
    service_description         *
    escalation_period           workhours
    escalation_options          c,u,r
    }

On all three of the builds I tried, this results in a "Could not expand 
services specified in service escalation" error.  After consulting this 
mailing list post 
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.devel/5933), I disabled 
regex, which allows me to use "*" in host_name, but not in 
service_description.

This bug could be a result of incorrect documentation in the tricks page.

The second bug is an annoyance for me.  When defining a service 
escalation, I found that the following escalation will generate _no_ 
service escalations, and will not give any errors or warnings.

    define serviceescalation {
    hostgroup_name   myHostgroup
    escalation_period workhours
    escalation_options c,u,r
    }

My assumption for how this behaved was that it would match all services 
of the hostgroup.  I am apparently incorrect (or another bug...), but in 
my opinion a service escalation definition that results in 0 generated 
service escalations should at the very least display a warning during 
the syntax check.

Mark Gius

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