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Even if I'm just using the servicegroups directive in a service definition? I was hoping that since I'm in a service definition I'd be able to leverage the host variable.

In more testing, I'm able to get it to expand in the check_command, but not in the servicegroups part of the service definition. Copy/pasted so this isn't the issue I'm having.

eloyd wrote:Look at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tvars.html more closely. You need to prefix your variable with _HOST OR _SERVICE to make them expand.

Haven't I?

The variable is _env, and I'm using $_HOSTENV$

I'm trying to use custom host variables as part of my service definition. More specifically for the servicegroups definition. Has anyone else tried to do this with any success? Example: define host { ... _environment testing } define service { ... servicegroups $_HOSTENVIRONMENT$-service1 } The over...

I'm trying to do something fancy, and maybe a little too fancy. Here's the example: Host1 is in hostgroups "type1" and "env1" Host2 is in hostgroups "type1" and "env2" Services are applied to the "type1" hostgroup I want certain services of Host1's t...

Yes, thanks jsmurphy! I figured that would be the case, but I thought I'd ask. We're beginning our education process, but the ability to force this would be helpful.

Thanks again!

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JKB

slansing, Thanks for the quick response! I have looked at the nagios documentation. The section you've referred me to is how to schedule downtime, I already do that. I'm trying to force others to do so as well. Instead they disable notifications, then forget to re-enable them when they are done and ...

I've been looking for a way to limit certain individual commands to a small group of users, such as making it so that only 2 people can disable notifications for a host or service. But, everything I've found has been to enable/disable users from submitting any commands. I'm looking for a way to sche...