Time-Saving Tricks For Service Definitions

[Patrick Morris]

Hi Caylan!

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Caylan Van Larson wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I think I've found a bug with the "Object Definition Tricks" found at  
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html#service.
> 
> Here is my configuration using the tricks above, which works...
> 
> define host {
>         use                     production-host
>         host_name               myhost
>         alias                   My Host
>         address                 x.x.x.x
>         hostgroups              dell-servers
> }
> 
> define hostgroup{
>         hostgroup_name			 dell-servers
>         alias           		 Dell Servers
> }
> 
> define service{
> 		 name                    dell-hardware
>  		 service_description     Dell Hardware
>  		 hostgroup_name          dell-servers
>  		 contact_groups          sysadmins
>  		 check_command           check_nrpe!check_dell
> }
> 
> Right up until I add back in a legacy host/service definition...
> 
> define host {
>         use                     production-host
>         host_name               newhost
>         alias                   New Host
>         address                 y.y.y.y
> }
> 
> define service {
> 		 use                     dell-hardware
> 		 host						 newhost
> }
> 
> 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.

I'm not seeing a bug.  

You defined a dell-hardware service that is not a template.  It's a
registered service.

Later, you create another service based on that registered service, so
iin effect you're creating a duplicate service definition, with the same 
name.  Nagios *should* barf on that.  It's a dupe.

If that's not the source of your problem, and it's just that the
"register 0" in the first service definition got dropped, than I suspect 
there may be other pieces that got sanitized out that are causing your 
error.

The most likely cause would be something like having "production host"
set as a member of "dell-servers," or otherwise having newhost already a
member of a group with the dell-hardware service assigned to it before
second time you define the service.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null