Gaspar, Carson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>> Of Ethan Galstad
>> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:05 PM
>> To: Nagios-Devel
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] Fix to allow incomplete
>> service dependency templates
>>
>> Jason Hoos wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 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.
>
> I violently disagree. Templates are, by definition, semantically
> incomplete. Why is this config line any more or less vital than every
> other missing config line? By your logic, templates shouldn't exist at
> all.
>
You are partially correct. Templates are usually incomplete, but they
should not contain incorrect data. In your example the template
references a hostgroup, which in turn has a bad membership list (one
host does not exist).
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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