Passing Arguments to checkcommand in hosts.cfg

[jay alvarez]

Hi,

I'm trying to use check_cisco_ping for some hosts and
aside from the $HOSTADDRESS$ it requires the mpls
label. Passing an argument to the check_command using
!ARGn! notation doesn't work. I think it has something
to do with the ARG definition in the manual: "The nth
argument passed to the service check command. Nagios
supports up to 32 argument macros ($ARG1$ through
$ARG32$)." 

Arguments are only passed to service checks and not to
host checks. There is no service associated with the
said hosts. And I think it is not a good idea to just
rely on service checks result for those hosts such
that hosts can assumed to be up or down because the
host checking method will just be a waste to the
machine's resource given a huge number of hosts to be
checked but the host check commands arent working.

Any idea how to handle this? 
Thanks!

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