How to make 1 exception for 1 host when mapping services to hostgroups?

Jelle Smet nagios at smetj.net
Tue Sep 8 13:41:42 CEST 2009


> One way to do this is use the custom host and service variables that
> Nagios 3.x provides in it's configuration DSL.  We use this
> extensively.
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/customobjectvars.html
> 
> If you use custom host variables in your service definitions, you can
> then define thresholds for services at the host level, which means you
> can use inheritance to have a common base set of thresholds but then
> override those as needed.

Hi Max.  That's indeed an interesting approach.
Although I will initially go with the proposal of Thomas 
Thanks for the tip, very inspiring.

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Jelle Smet
http://www.smetj.net

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