[Nagios-users] object inheritance question

[Babineau, M. <Mike.Babineau@Pearson.com>]

When using templates in the case of variables which can have a
comma-delimited set of values, does variable assignment overwrite or
append?

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Example:

define contact{

=20       use                             template.contact         =20

=20       contact_name                    template.contact.admin

=20       contactgroups                   contactgroup.admin

=20       register                        0

=20       }

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define contact{

=20       use                             template.contact.admin

=20       contact_name                    jbob

=20       contactgroups                   contactgroup.admin.sa

=20       alias                           Jim Bob

=20       }

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Will Jim Bob be a member of a) only contactgroup.admin.sa; or b) both
contactgroup.admin and contactgroup.admin.sa?

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If, as I suspect, a) is correct and he will only be a member of the last
assigned group, is there a way to append to an inherited variable's
value and achieve case b)?

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Thanks,

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Michael Babineau

Systems Administrator

Pearson Education

mik...@pe...


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