The reason of commands.cfg.

[Albert Shih]

Hi all,

I would like to known why (just the historic reason) in nagios we split the
definition of the macros and the definition of a service ? For example :

When we want to monitor a pop service we create 

define command {
        command_name    check_pops
        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_spop -H $ARG1$
	}

and another

define service {
        host_name                       my_pop_server
        use                             generic-service
        service_description             POP
        check_command			check_pops!my_ip_of_pop_server
}

Why not in one ligne with something like


define service {
        host_name                       my_pop_server
        use                             generic-service
        service_description             POP
        check_command			/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_spop -H my_pop_server
}


Regards.


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