<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>I have been using Netsaint 7.0 for a long time and have built up quite a large number of non-standard check_snmp statements that require individual configuration per server. With the new template based format for Nagios 1.0 my services.cfg file is going to be huge since each service statement is now about 10 lines instead of one line condensed. This is going to make maintenance very difficult since I will have to browse tons of pages to find a service. I don’t want to go back to the old “default” method since I am completely transferring my system into the new format and don’t want to be outdated on the offset. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Is there a way to manage custom statements like check_snmp and NSClient Windows service check so that they are not out of control? I see the benefit for template’s but that seems to be limited to environments that all the hosts in a network have similar settings. If one server in a group does not follow a guideline then you have to expand the group to individual hosts. Can you do hostgroup exemptions in a service check? Can you issue multiple check_commands in one service statement?</span></font></p> </div> </body> </html>