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Hi

I have Nagios core 4.1.1 and mrtg installed, and everything works fine...

Is it somehow possible to get the service_description by automatic from ex. mrtg output.

What I would like to do is, when I change the description text on a port in the switch configuration, I can see the change in the mrtg description (mrtg: "descr"), what I would like to is variable to set into the service_decription when doing the define service{...

You could probably do this, but it would take a custom bash script that does a replace.

I was hoping there was a better way... Since it's usefull in many ways. Thx for the answer

Let us know if you have any more questions.

when writing your script you should consider pynag http://pynag.org , very handy for doing this sort of config file manipulation on the fly

Thanks @nozlaf!

@ThomasJohansen - let us know if you have any further questions.