Custom macros in host definitions
Well, I was playing with the hostgroup inheritance earlier. One problem with that is, if you define a duplicate service Nagios is really unpredictable or rather inconsistent. Now, as Thomas Guyot-Sionnest told me, I should try custom macros for the check definition. So what I did was the following: templates/host-windows.cfg 1 2 3 4 5 define host { name generic-windows register 0 _RDPPORT 3389 } hostgroups/windows.cfg ...