Time-Saving Tricks For Service Definitions

[Caylan Van Larson]

>> Error: Service 'Dell Hardware' on host 'myhost' has already been  
>> defined
>> Error: Could not register service (config file .... newhost.cfg on  
>> line XX)
>>
>> Question:  Why does "using" dell-hardware in a normal syntax  
>> (remember, my goal is to migrate the old style in red to the new  
>> hostgroups trick style above), is not compatible when the service  
>> has a hostgroup_name defined?  This looks to me like a bug, where  
>> it's trying to redefine the service instead of just using it.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> My thought is that you need a unique "name" directive in the second  
> service that uses dell-hardware. Otherwise the service with the use  
> directive has the same name as the service it is using, causing  
> exactly what the error says- the service dell hardware has already  
> been defined, and yes, you are trying to re-define it. Basically,  
> when you insert the use directive, it copies everything from the  
> service (or whatever) you tell it to use into the new one, except  
> for any directives that are explicitly set in the new on. And since  
> you can't have two service definitions with the same name, you get  
> that error.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Israel Brewster

I'd be willing to accept that, however, without the host_groupname  
directive for the original service, every instance of "use dell- 
hardware" (75 of them) works fine without any additional name or  
alias options.  I'm only seeing this error once I add in  
host_groupname for the original service.

Caylan

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