Hi all,
I seem to have a working solution but an confused as to why it works, could some one please explain or suggest a better way to do this. I apply service to hosts via, host-templates and wanted to change a value for a service but just for one hosts. I didnt want to add a new service / service template hoping i could just over ride the value for just that one host: I am running Nagios 3.2.3 and the simplified config looks like this: service { name service-check command run-some-check.sh max_check_attempts 1 hostgroup_name host_group1 } host { name host-template1 use generic hostgroups +host_group1 register 0 } host { name host1 use host-template1 } host { name host2 use host-template1 } Now I wanted to change the value for max_check_attempts used by the service for host2. What I did was service { name service-check command run-some-check.sh max_check_attempts 3 host host2 } This created duplicate a warning when doing a verbose config check, but no warning on the normal config check and it allowed Nagios to reload and used the values from the host defined service! My questions are, why does this work? Is Nagios actually running both services but only showing one of them in the gui and ill probably have some race condition between them. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for your help, Ritchie -- Fnord... <-- http://23.me.uk --> <-- http://wiki.s23.org --> <-- http://twitter.com/23me --> <- -Only the lavender prairie dogs know the key to unlock the secret of the tumble-weeds. --> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null