Help understanding host templates

Have you deployed the configuration? https://docs.centreon.com/cloud/monitoring/monitoring-servers/deploying-a-configuration/

Hello

for my setup I had to do something similar, I have multiple clients with differents setting (for notification, or snmp community, or nsclient password)

what I did was 2 things

• create a “host template” with no service template linked, with all the settings I needed, 1 for each client
• modifiy the “generic-active-host-custom” to have all these setting unconfigured

next all my host have their 1rst template as “client_xxx”,it is important for it to be first

the 2nd tempate is the function template (linux, windows, specific custom host template) then the additionnal template if needed

the “icon” comes mostly from the 2nd template, as it is the relevant one

what you need to understand is the “inheritance”, the order of the template is important, and if a template has some settings that overwrite the same setting from another template, the last one applied win

that “generic active host custom” is the root of all the template used by centreon, so by inheritance that template is always used, that’s why I set all its values to “default” or empty values

an old centreon doc here Object Inheritance — Centreon Engine 19.10 documentation but the concept is still the same

Hi, thanks for the answers.

​@rchauvel  yes, I’ve exported the configuration.

​@christophe.niel-ACT well I think that I’ve used the parent-child inheritance in my case. I made the Windows_server_snmp_template and in this template I’ve used the “os-windows-snmp” default template template.
I’ve only a doubt: what is the expected behaviour? As soon as I select the template, the other fileds will be automatically populated? Or they all remains blank to indicate that is the template to domain over them?

Oh… I’m feeling dumb for not having though about it before. I was expecting some kind of feedback from the ui upon template loading.

Is there any other way to be sure that those “hidden” parameters are rellay appied to my host except simulating a warning? Because at this point, I think that all is working as expected