Re: [Nagios-users] Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

2006-02-08 Thread Holger Weiss
* Lori Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-07 18:48]: This is actually true of the services documentation. It doesn't state that you can use hostgroups. This is documented here: http://nagios.sf.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html#service However, I agree it should also be added to

Re: [Nagios-users] Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

2006-02-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:27:47AM +0100, Frederik Vanhee wrote: Why don't you use the hostgroup_name in the hostextinfo definition ? Because I didn't know that hostgroup_name was possible in hostextinfo. It is not documented in xodtemplate.html for 2.0rc2, but has now been verified to work.

[Nagios-users] Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

2006-02-03 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, to me, the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition seems artificial, awkward and clumsy - and it prevents some of the more powerful features from being used with the information that belongs into hostextinfo. Hostextinfo doesn't seem to support templates, and it