Referencing resource.cfg variable in SNMP COMMUNITY

[Yueh-Hung Liu]

i think macros can only be used in command definition.
if all remote hosts' snmp strings have been modified, changing of snmp
community name for checking is not so difficult since you only have to
modify some configuration files on nagios monitor instead of every
remote hosts.


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Bonnie Backstrom
<Bonnie.Backstrom at neovera.com> wrote:
> Submitted this to NConf forums and they advised this is a Nagios question:
>
>
>
> Is it possible to reference a variable defined in resource.cfg (ie; $USER5$
> = abc) in _SNMP_COMMUNITY?
>
> We would like to be able to modify all hosts SNMP strings with a single
> entry rather than having to do so across all hosts. And of course still be
> able to use $_HOSTSNMP_COMMUNITY$ in our service checks so that
> $_HOSTSNMP_COMMUNITY$ = _SNMP_COMMUNITY = $USER5$ = abc, thus having Nagios
> read 'abc'.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know of an alternate approach to accomplish same?
>
> Our current version is Nagios 3.0.6 and NConf 1.2.5
>
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