Hello, They may not be mandatory, but I think they are used in notifications -- for example, if a contact for the host is to be notified by email if the host goes down and the host does go down, the message says something like '<hostalias>/ping is CRITICAL'. I may not be correct here... put in a dummy host with no alias and see what the notification says.
Cheers, Guy. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:01 PM, L B <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > In the documentation, host aliases are in red, so mandatory, but it > works without configuring them.Can I have problems if I don't define > them ? > > I have a database with host descriptions, and I want to avoid > duplicating data. If aliases have to be defined, I will just define > something like "foo" > > Is the error in the config checker or in the documentation ? > > Thanks > -- > L.B. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when > reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null >
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