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

Janet Sullivan jsullivan at mndigital.com
Wed Sep 9 02:42:15 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.
>
>I've used Max's approach as well.  Works nicely!

How will using custom macros for services like this affect performance
and memory usage once it's used 10,000+ times?  Does it scale well?


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