Bug: resources in service definitions

[Matt Pounsett]

I've posted about this before, looking for confirmation from others.  I
haven't received any replies yet.. but I've done some more research and I'm
now convinced this is a bug.  Could I get someone to try to duplicate this,
and let me know if they're successful?  This all pertains to Nagios 1.1,
compiled from source, running on RedHat 7.3 and RedHat Edge Server 3.0.

It would appear that variables defined in resources.cfg cannot be used inside
service object definitions.. only in command definitions.  When used inside
service definitions, the value that gets passed is always "$", rather than the
value assigned to the variable.

I first noticed this when I tried to set up a general mySQL check command.  I
have several different mySQL servers to check, some with different admin
passwords, which means that it's easiest for me to define one check command,
and put the user/pass in several sets of resources, specified within the
service definition, like so:

resources.cfg:
--------------
$USER3$=mysqlroot
$USER4$=mysqlpass

services.cfg:
--------------
define service {
    use                 templateServiceGeneric
    host_name           sqlserver.domain.com
    service_description MySQL
    check_command       check_mysql!$USER3$!$USER4$
    contact_groups      sysadmins
}

commands.cfg:
---------------
define command {
    command_name    check_mysql
    command_line    $USER1$/check_mysql -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$ -p $ARG2$
}

However... when I do it this way, the command that is eventually run is:

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mysql -H xx.xx.xx.xx -u $ -p $

If I replace $USER3$ for $ARG1$ and $USER4$ for $ARG2$ in the check command,
I get this (as expected):

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mysql -H xx.xx.xx.xx -u mysqlroot -p mysqlpass

So, in order to get this to work, without exposing passwords via the CGI
interfaces, I've had to create several check commands for mySQL -- one for
each server.  

Could someone from the development team confirm whether this is a bug, a
misinterpretation on my part of the documentation (which seems to suggest I
should be able to use resources in service definitions), or some other
intentional limitation in the use of resources?

Thanks,
  Matt Pounsett

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matt.pounsett at cira.ca                                 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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