check_period host - service inheritance

[Greg Borbonus]

What about using service templates?

That way, the check_period and such are all setup with service template 
directives, and your service only has to define the command and such.

Thank you,
Greg Borbonus
*nix System Administrator
gregborbonus at gmail.com


On 8/10/2010 4:57 AM, mlrtime3 wrote:
> I've seen some old threads in the nagios-users group but nothing recent
> so I thought I'd bring it up again.
>
> I have a use case to have a single service defined for 1000's of
> different hosts with up to 50-100 different check_period times.
>
> The only way to do this now is to create a different service with each
> check_period.  To do this, I would need to create 50-100 different
> service definitions for each check_period.
>
> It makes much more sense for the service to inherit the hosts
> check_period value and use this for the service.  This allows me to only
> define one service.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to get this to work, or has anyone created a
> patch for 3.2.x to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> mlr
>
>
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