Re: [Nagios-users] host object declarations

2012-10-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 10/02/2012 05:20 PM, Marki wrote: > >> The only thing I'm saying in that bugreport is >> that Nagios does not and will not complain when the "address" fields of >> hosts are unique. > > In fact you also said: > >> that suggests that either your namestandard (used for the host_name field) >> s

Re: [Nagios-users] host object declarations

2012-10-02 Thread Marki
> The only thing I'm saying in that bugreport is > that Nagios does not and will not complain when the "address" fields of > hosts are unique. In fact you also said: > that suggests that either your namestandard (used for the host_name field) > sucks, or that you or your co-workers are simply co

Re: [Nagios-users] host object declarations

2012-10-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 10/02/2012 02:52 PM, Marki wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to further discuss > http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=177 > which is about host object declarations. > > You suggest using host_name as something that resolves. However, we don't > have a > (DNS) hostname for each device. I'm su

[Nagios-users] host object declarations

2012-10-02 Thread Marki
Hi there, I'd like to further discuss http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=177 which is about host object declarations. You suggest using host_name as something that resolves. However, we don't have a (DNS) hostname for each device. Also, directive description (Nagios documentation) says: "This