per host custom macros

[David Mansfield]

Marc Powell wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of David Mansfield
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:55 AM
>> To: Terry
>> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] per host custom macros
>>
>>
>>
>> Terry wrote:
>>> You could maybe write an "intelligent" plugin to query the host
>>> information from another source based on the service name or
> something
>>> but nagios needs to know the IP address somehow.  Where would you
> want
>>> to put this information so nagios can perform the service
>>> appropriately?
>>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> define host {
>> 	use generic-host
>> 	host_name myhost.mydomain.com
>> 	alias myhost
>> 	address 1.2.3.4
>>
>> 	custom_macro FOOPROPERTY=AA:BB:CC:DD
>> 	custom_macro BARVALUE=BigImportantValue
>>
>> 	hostgroups all_foo,all_bar
>> }
> 
> To maybe short-circuit this direction --
> 
> http://www.nagios.org/development/upcoming.php
> 
> User-Defined Object Directives:
> 
> Object definitions will be extended to allow for user-defined
> variables/directives to be entered. This custom variables will be
> inheritable, just like the standard variables now. Custom variables will
> likely look something like this...
> 
> define host{
> 	host_name		host1
> 	...
> 	_customvar1		"This is a custom variable of some kind"
> 	_location   		"Host is physically located in Room
> 301..."
> 	_snmp_community_string 	public
> 	}
> 


Thanks, Marc.  That's perfect and addresses my initial concern exactly 
100%.

Is there any work in progress on this that I can help out with?

David



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