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nagios3 package

"nagios3-common" package should not have configuration files named as "*-nagios2.cfg"

Bug #300660 reported by Anderson
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nagios3-common

In Ubuntu 9.04, Nagios version is 3.0.3-3ubuntu1 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/nagios3-common), but configuration files follows a name convention from Nagios 2.x (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/nagios3-common/filelist).

The files:
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/contacts_nagios2.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/extinfo_nagios2.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/generic-host_nagios2.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/generic-service_nagios2.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/hostgroups_nagios2.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/localhost_nagios2.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/services_nagios2.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/timeperiods_nagios2.cfg

Should be renamed to:
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/contacts_nagios3.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/extinfo_nagios3.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/generic-host_nagios3.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/generic-service_nagios3.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/hostgroups_nagios3.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/localhost_nagios3.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/services_nagios3.cfg
/etc/nagios3/conf.d/timeperiods_nagios3.cfg

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Mark Foster (fostermarkd) wrote :

I respectfully disagree.

IMO they should not have "nagios3" or "nagios2" in the path names at all, instead...
/etc/nagios/conf.d/contacts.cfg
/etc/nagios/conf.d/extinfo.cfg

This matches up with the paths from nagios-plugins and is the better approach.

Nobody is going to feasibly run nagios2 & nagios3 on the same host, and the nagios-plugins are not using those (version-specific) paths either... so you end up with a mix of /etc/nagios & /etc/nagios3 what sense does that make?

Please go back to using /etc/nagios/ as the configuration base.

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Anderson (amg1127) wrote :

This is also a good idea... Actually, it's better than mine.

Anyway... I just wish not to mix "nagios3" & "nagios2" terms in paths... This mix seems so strange...

Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nagios3:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Jarl (jarl-dk) wrote :

I agree with mark Fosters proposal on names...

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