Nagios Support Forum

Ah, but where you then get bitten, and quite hard, is you can't have two "define host {}" stanzas with the same host_name. I've tried that (or at least swear that I thought I did).

You actually have to have unique host_names, and that's the rub - I'd rather not have to do that.

I was wondering what everyone would think about being able to use a wild card or list for "service_description" in "serviceescalation" stanzas. It would be helpful in my case if I just had to have one serviceescalation stanza to cover the whole host ... I know you can apply a ser...

Actually, given that we are a 40000+ student, multi-campus university with a large IT staff, Nagios tells us a lot more about what's up or down than people do, usually. Even with people knowing all the network engineers' (cell)phone numbers. Sometimes it takes the helpdesk a while to get around to a...

I don't see an easy way around it, but here's what we wanted to do: We wanted to have different settings for different time periods. For example, for a single host, during business hours: - max_check_attempts = 2 - check_interval = 3 - retry_interval = 1 But say you wanted to avoid "transients&...