bug report & feature request: hostextinfo problems

[Christoph Maser]

John Arley Burns wrote:
> I think what you want to do is put a "hostgroup" entry in your
> hostextinfo definition and then setup a "hostgroup" with your host
> list.  Does hostextinfo support hostgroups?  If not, perhaps it should.
> 
> Another generic gripe: hostgroups should be inheritable: I should be
> able to have a hostgroup of hostgroups ad infinatum.  This helps reduce
> the size of the config files when I have several hostgroups.
> 

i don't think this is the best solution, since totally different host 
types might be grouped in a hostgroup. you might end up with 2 
hostgroups for each machine. one for logical groups and and for similar 
host types. doesnt sound very good to me.

chris

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