Error: Template 'linux-server' specified in host definition could not be found (config file '/etc/nagios/okconfig/hosts/mygroup/myhost-host.cfg', starting on line 3) about okconfig HOT 4 CLOSED

I've seen this too. I thought it had something to do with some hack in my setup and hadn't bothered to track it down. My way to reproduce the use linux-server issue:

okconfig addhost somehost.foo.local --group somegroup --template linux,dns

While this makes the host depend on okc-default-host with identical config:

okconfig addhost somehost.foo.local --group somegroup
okconfig addtemplate somehost.foo.local --template linux,dns

from okconfig.

quick workaround is to run:

pynag add host host_name=linux-server use=generic-host

I'm going to take a look at what is going on in the code.

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ps: linux-server is distributed as part of nagios rpm on redhat. I am guessing @ramiro is running some other distribution.

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That's right. I'm using Debian.

It seems at least one distribution modifies the configuration shipped with Nagios. And it seem like neither of these mods are general enough.

It's a good thing okconfig doesn't depend on any of these arbitrary templates. ISTM safest choice would be to assume there are no previous definitions and the Nagios/Icinga configuration is fully managed by okconfig starting from a clean room scenario.

Thanks for the fix and for okconfig.

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