Last week I raised an issue on the nagios-user list which I believe is a
minor bug in nagios. The documentation appears to indicate that using
"null" should prevent the inheritance of values from templates, and that
an unspecified value for notification_period in a service definition
will cause notifications to be send only during the associated host's
notification_period. What actually happens is slightly different from
what the documentation appears to suggest. The code will prevent
inheritance of the template's value, but will still set
have_notification_period=TRUE. This prevents inheritance. Since the
notification_period attribute isn't actually set, I believe that setting
have_notification_period=TRUE is a bug.
Is there a reason for this behavior that I'm missing? If not, could it
be changed to more closely match the documentation?
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