Re: [Nagios-devel] Host display problem

[Thomas Guyot-S. <Th...@za...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nag...@li... 
> [mailto:nag...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Baumgartner, Jeremy J
> Sent: November 7, 2006 14:52
> To: nag...@li...
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Host display problem
> 
> I'm seeing a strange occurrance, and it seems like something 
> that may have been added as a feature, but I cannot see any 
> explaination anywhere else.
>  
> Configuration:
>  
> We use separate files for each server we monitor.  We have 3 
> files in particular:  ntz00.cfg, ntz00a.cfg, and ntz00b.cfg.  
> We have identical services defined in ntz00a.cfg and 
> ntz00b.cfg, as they are identical systems.  ntz00.cfg has 3 
> services which are common to the other two, but they are not 
> listed in either ntz00a.cfg or ntz00b.cfg.  When we view the 
> hosts ntz00a or ntz00b on the web interface, the additional 
> services in ntz00.cfg appear.
>  
> This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we don't want this to 
> happen, since the host ntz00 "hops" between ntz00a and ntz00b 
> in a high-availability setup.
>  
> I'm wondering if this was something that was added as a 
> feature, since the hostnames are so similar 
> (ntz00/ntz00a/ntz00b), perhaps there is logic built in to 
> recognize that <hostname> and <hostname>[a-z] are related in this way.
>  
> In any case, any information on this would be greatly 
> appreciated.  Thank you.

If your configuration is done correctly then it's certainely a regexp
problem. Make sure you have:

use_regexp_matching=0
use_true_regexp_matching=0

In you main Nagios config file.

Thomas