Re: [Nagios-users] Derive service settings from hosts definition

2012-08-13 Thread David Fulton
. -Original Message- From: David Fulton Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:24 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Derive service settings from hosts definition On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Chris Beattie cbeat...@geninfo.com wrote: On 7/30/2012 2:31 PM, Vladislav

Re: [Nagios-users] Derive service settings from hosts definition

2012-08-01 Thread Chris Beattie
On 7/31/2012 11:24 AM, David Fulton wrote: Also keep in mind you can use user defined host based macros that can be defined in the templates to make parameters to the service checks inherited from the host as well. I've been using Nagios since it was Netsaint and never figured out what I

Re: [Nagios-users] Derive service settings from hosts definition

2012-08-01 Thread Vladislav Staroselskiy
This helped a lot - thank you both for explanations! I saw this link earlier, but somehow missed implied inheritance part of it. Vlad. -Original Message- From: David Fulton Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:24 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Derive service settings

Re: [Nagios-users] Derive service settings from hosts definition

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Beattie
On 7/30/2012 2:31 PM, Vladislav Staroselskiy wrote: Is there any way to derive certain service options from the host definition? Is there any default inheritance behavior for it? ... I really wish, service notification/contact options could be derived from hosts definitions to avoid this

Re: [Nagios-users] Derive service settings from hosts definition

2012-07-31 Thread David Fulton
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Chris Beattie cbeat...@geninfo.com wrote: On 7/30/2012 2:31 PM, Vladislav Staroselskiy wrote: Is there any way to derive certain service options from the host definition? Is there any default inheritance behavior for it? ... I really wish, service

[Nagios-users] Derive service settings from hosts definition

2012-07-30 Thread Vladislav Staroselskiy
Hello! Is there any way to derive certain service options from the host definition? Is there any default inheritance behavior for it? I.e.: --- cut --- define service { use production-service hostgroup_name ping contacts