Setting up a passive check problem

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Lewis Getschel wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for your input! (Ain't it great when we all help each 
> other!)
> 
<snip>
> 
> On a side note....
> Can someone explain the idea of "register". As far as I can tell, since 
> I have "register  0" in my templates, nothing is registered. When would 
> I want to register something, and what does it get me?
> 
> When I _try_ to register this service (as above) (with a 1), when I 
> reload, I get:
>           Error: Service description, host name, or check command is NULL
>           Error: Could not register service (config file 
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/general/services.cfg', line 345)
> When I change back to zero, it reloads fine...
>  ... Just wondering what I'm "missing".
> 
> Thanks again to all.
> 


register=0 is used for templates 
templates may or may not contain all the required entries for a definition

register=1 (true) is used for instances
The instance definition MUST (after resolution of templates used) contain 
all the required entries for the definition.

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-sg




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