[dev.icinga.com #11460] How to use predefined check variables in director hosts / services / templates?

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This issue has been migrated from Redmine: https://dev.icinga.com/issues/11460

Created by geotek on 2016-03-28 10:21:16 +00:00

Assignee: (none)
Status: Closed (closed on 2016-10-24 21:31:23 +00:00)
Target Version: 1.2.0
Last Update: 2016-10-24 21:31:23 +00:00 (in Redmine)

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There are several predefined variables such as vars.snmp_v2 or vars.dns_lookup that we need to set or override at different levels of the object hierarchy, but I can't find a way to set them in director. I would expect these variables to show up in the commands => fields => field dropdown list, but I can't find a way to set them anywere. As some of these variables are essential, how should we use them in director?

By the way, big congratulations to the people behind icinga - I have evaluated numerous NMS and this is by far the most elegant, attractive and promising open source NMS that I have ever seen. Heads Up!!

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Relations:

• relates #11460

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Updated by tgelf on 2016-07-20 09:45:15 +00:00

• Status changed from New to Feedback
• Assigned to set to geotek

Is this still an issue, have you been able to figure out how it works, anything you are still missing?

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Updated by geotek on 2016-07-20 11:26:44 +00:00

At the moment this is not an issue for us any more as we have found ways to work around it.

However, I think it would be helpful to at least document the relationship between Director variables and static or live variables, which can be accessed and which not. I can think of several use cases where one would want to access externally defined variables (set_if, or assignment rules).

Thanks for coming back to this issue.

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Updated by tgelf on 2016-10-24 03:59:09 +00:00

• Status changed from Feedback to New
• Assigned to deleted geotek
• Target Version set to 1.2.0

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Updated by tgelf on 2016-10-24 21:30:07 +00:00

• Relates set to 12972

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Updated by tgelf on 2016-10-24 21:31:23 +00:00

• Status changed from New to Closed

Created a related feature request that should make tasks like this more obvious. Not much text over there, but I hope I can remember what it was all about ;-)

Cheers,
Thomas