[Nagios-devel] RFC/RFP: Service parents

Max Schubert maxs at webwizarddesign.com
Tue May 17 11:53:16 CEST 2011


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 11:34 AM, Max Schubert wrote:
>> Andreas,
>>
>> How does this differ functionality from the current ability to
>> describe dependencies with servicedependency?  Is it just easier to
>> define (I agree that would be a win)
>>
>
> It's just easier to describe, and it ties in nicely with different
> additions to the configuration syntax being planned. It does have
> some limitations, but in 99.5% of all dependencies I've seen, it
> matches the usecase people put dependencies to so it should be quite
> a nice win anyway.

I agree - the current syntax is very flexible but understanding how to
implement it properly for some users results in a very painful
learning curve.

Any plans to detatch notification attributes from service / host
definitions in 4.x and make them their own top-level configuration
class like escalations  to make it easier to scale notification
definitions for large projects?

- Max

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