Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
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> Tested against 2.7 and latest CVS: When I define a template like this:
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> define servicedependency {
> dependent_hostgroup_name hsgrp_1,hsgrp_2,hsgrp_x
> name template_name
> register 0
> }
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> Nagios bails out with the following error:
>
> Error: Could not expand master hostgroups and/or hosts specified in
> service dependency (config file '/path/to/config', starting on line 88)
>
> Looking quickly at the code it seems that it could affect many other
> objects... I didn't have time to pinpoint the problem though. I can
> possibly take a deeper look tonight if it's not obvious to anyone more
> used to play with the template code.
>
> As a workaround I can define a host_name and override it in the service
> definition.
>
> You may ask why I have a so simple template definition? The answer is
> that I keep all hostgroup lists at the same place and grouped together,
> so that when I add/remove hostgroups I don't need to grep around the
> config to make sure I didn't miss something. (While we're at it, I'm
> just thinking that the ability to get a hosts list out of a service
> templates would be nice if it can be done in a sane way...)
Thanks for the note. I'll get a patch into the 2.x branch in a moment.
The code in the 3.x/head branch appears to handle this properly.
Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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