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That makes sense, otherwise things could be injected. I can easily write a find/replace script to update all of the host config files as needed. That might be a better way than using User macros. None of the passwords/community strings (read only) I use for the monitoring are very high security ones...

Hi again! I am trying to use macros to store information in host definitions that then get used by a service definition. So far I have this working. My next step is to then uses a few user macros to store the sensitive data such as community string or passwords used by the hosts. So I am trying to u...

I re-entered it in the config files and now it's working. I must have had some kind of white-space something that I just could not see. Thank you again so much!

Thank you again for your time. I am confused about one thing and it may be why I am having trouble. In your example, the macro in the service check_command is "$_HOSTFOO$", while the variable in the host is "_COMMUNITY". I don't understand how it knows to replace $_HOSTFOO$ with ...

Thank you jdalrymple. That is exactly what I am looking for. However I am not sure how to get the host customer variable into a macro for the service. For example: define host { host_name test.hostname.com alias Test Switch 1 display_name test.hostname.com address 127.0.0.1 parents Main_switch use r...

Hello all, newbie here. I am trying to use Nagios CORE to monitor OSPF and BGP in order to detect failures in redundant fiber and wireless links (which can't be detected by pinging). I have written some scripts to do this, however there is one issue I am running into. Some of the devices have differ...

That's kind of what I was thinking, but worry that my inexperience my come to bite me with things I don't know to look for. So far with the other two values being ignored it hasn't been a problem, but I will still need to test for longer to be sure. Thank you!

Hello! I have recently just started using Nagios Core (management won't fund XI, at least not yet) and will probably be asking a lot of advice questions over the next few days. I apologize in advance and make my best attempt to search for answers beforehand. So far it works pretty well, but there ar...

Hello! I am just starting to test out Nagios and had some questions which I have not been able to find on the forums (they may exist, but I have failed to find them) or the FAQ, so I thought I would create a post. My apologies if this is covered. We have some hosts which aside from needing to be mon...