HowTo use variables in WATO for hosts or rules?

[BH2005 (Bernd Holzhauer)]

but also I have found an old Post

[Check_mk (english)] Additional Nagios Macros + Wato

Hi,   Due to the last thread about check_esx (check_vmware_api.pl) I got interested and set one up for us.   We have one DC, two clusters, each with two hosts, each with a bundle of VMS.   I could rather easily check that for example, whether VMWare tools are up-to-date - on a Datacenter level. However, it would be much better if this could occur on a host level. That way if the tools are out of date, the alert would be generated for the affected host, not for the entire DC.   For this, I ca…

perhaps @andreas-doehler can help

Host macros are now replaced in datasource program command lines

The macro $HOSTNAME$ is now available for host checks which are based on...