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Jason Hoos wrote:
> The attached patch fixes a problem with parsing service dependency
> templates that specify "hostgroups" without "dependent_hostgroups" or
> vice versa. The following config snippet triggers the bug:
>
> define host {
> use generic-host ; generic host template omitted for brevity
> host_name b
> }
>
> define hostgroup {
> hostgroup_name test-hg
> alias test-hg
> members a,b
> }
>
> define servicedependency {
> register 0
> name base-sd
> hostgroups test-hg
> }
>
> Since it's not a registered object, the servicedependency template
> should be
> valid, but Nagios reports "Could not expand dependent hostgroups and/or
> hosts
> specified in service dependency" instead.
>
> This patch applies to both Nagios 2.5 and 2.6.
>
> Jason Hoos
>

Actually, I think this should result in an error message, even though
the template dependency isn't going to be registered. Better to catch a
problem earlier, rather than later when the template is being used.

Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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