hostextinfo templates stopped working

[Andreas Ericsson]

Steve Shipway wrote:
> Well, after working on this for the last 3 hours, wouldn't you know that I'd
> find the answer immediately after posting to the list?
> 
> For thos of you interested in the cause of my problem (and for posterity)
> the reason was this -  there was *one* hostextinfo definition using a
> misspelt template name, and this stopped *all* templates from working, and
> no error messages were logged anywhere.
> 
That's because the hostextinfo is non-critical to nagios operations, and 
Nagios doesn't read them. The GUI does, but they don't log anything, so 
it's an entirely different matter.

> I worked this out by slowly deleting every definition from the file in turn.
> The offending one was the last in the file (typical).
> 
> Maybe Nagios should produce some error messages when it finds
> inconsistencies in the extinfo files, as it does for errors in the other
> files?
> 

In Nagios 2.0, hostextinfo is considered to be an object configuration 
file just like anything else so Nagios reads it, verifies it and caches it.


> Thanks for letting me waste your time,
> 

You're welcome. We don't do much at work until after lunch anyway. ;-)


> Steve
> 

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