Nagios Support Forum

2009/12/19 Jim Avery :
> 2009/12/17 Ton Voon :
>
>> Can you get a minimal config that displays this behaviour? I'll add it
>> to the tests in CVS.
>
> Yes I will do in the next few days. =A0I'm sorry I didn't have any spare
> time yesterday.
>
>> Should it be counted in the warnings or is it just an informational
>> message?
>
> If it were just informational, I suppose you could simply change the
> "Warning" to "Information" and have done with it. =A0Personally I'd
> rather it remain a warning (and gets counted) as it does point to a
> genuine mistake in the config.

Okay here's the minimal config (I'm assuming you already have simple
templates for generic-host and generic-service):

define command{
command_name check_dummy
command_line $USER1$/check_dummy $ARG1$
}
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name test
alias test - hosts used for testing
}
define host{
use generic-host
host_name test
alias test - Host used for testing new service checks in Nagios
address 10.123.123.123
hostgroups +test
parents localhost
}
define service
host_name test
use generic-service
service_description test
check_command check_dummy!0 "test always succeeds"
}
define service
host_name test
use generic-service
service_description test
check_command check_dummy!0 "test always succeeds"
}



When I run nagios -v against a nagios.cfg which reads this config, I get:

Warning: Duplicate definition found for service 'test' on host
'test' (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/test/services.cfg',
starting on line 1)

which is fair enough as the service is indeed defined twice, but in
the totals at the end I get:

Total Warnings: 0
Total Errors: 0

Note this behaves the same whether the second service is defined using
directive "host_name test" or "hostgroup_name test".


hth,

Jim





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