object inheritance - overwrite custom variables?

[Anders Kvist]

Thanks! So simple :D

/Anders



On 2011-11-16 02:15, Yueh-Hung Liu wrote:
> When you use multiple inheritance sources, Nagios will use the
> variable/value from the first source that is specified in the use
> directive.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Anders Kvist <anders at kvistmail.dk> wrote:
>> Hey
>>
>> I have tried to use object inheritance in my nagios config, but a few
>> things are bugging me:
>>
>> I have a linux-server which uses generic-server and sets up default
>> settings for all my linux servers. I have some templates for tasks, in
>> this case: storage, kvm and hardware. They only add the hostgroup (and
>> gets services this way) and have some custom variables. Here is an example:
>>
>> define host{
>>        name                             storage-server
>>        hostgroups                       +storage-servers
>>        register                         0
>>
>>        __PROCS_WARN                     500
>>        __PROCS_CRIT                     750
>>        }
>>
>> A kvm host is defined with 'use linux-server,kvm-server,hardware-server'
>> and storage host with 'use linux-server,storage-server,hardware-server'.
>> Here is an example of a storage host:
>>
>> define host{
>>         use             linux-server,storage-server,hardware-server
>>         host_name       storage01.domain.tld
>>         alias           storage01
>>         address         xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>> }
>>
>>
>> Hostgroups work fine (even tough the lists of hostgroups on a host in
>> the webinterface isn't in the same order as the use-line), but custom
>> variables doesn't. I have a __PROCS_WARN and __PROCS_CRIT in
>> linux-servers with a default number of max processes before warning and
>> critical - this needs to be overwritten for kvm-server and
>> storage-server, because they have more processes - but the one from
>> linux-server is used in both cases...
>>
>> What do I need to do to make this work as expected?
>>
>> /Anders
>>
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