Newbie question..services and hostgroups

Steve Gilbert SGilbert at nvidia.com
Fri Dec 12 23:40:50 CET 2003


Oh thank God!  I was about 10 minutes away from throwing Nagios out and
placing an order for whatever lame commercial package was out there.  Whew!

Don't know how I missed that page in docs.  Thanks to all who replied!

Steve Gilbert
Unix Systems Administrator
sgilbert at nvidia.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 2:37 PM
To: Steve Gilbert; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups


Found it, not in the FAQ, but in the regular documentation. It is a
little hard to get to, so here's a direct link:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templatetricks.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Cook, Garry
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: Steve Gilbert; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups
> 
> 
> I could swear that this was in the FAQ 
> (http://www.nagios.org/faqs), but
> I can't seem to find it right now. I'm sure someone will clue us in...
> 
> Yes, you can do exactly what you are asking for, apply a service check
> to an entire hostgroup. In the service definition you'll need 
> to change
> the 'host_name' to 'hostgroup_name', then just follow it with a
> hostgroup instead of a host. Also, should you ever want to apply a
> service check to all hosts, you can simply use
> 
> host_name	* 
> 
> in the definition.
> 
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
> 303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> > Of Steve Gilbert
> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:22 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups
> > 
> > 
> > I'm setting up Nagios 1.1 for the first time, and I'm a 
> > little confused
> > about something.  I've got my hosts.cfg file done (~180 
> > hosts) as well as my
> > hostgroups.cfg.  I'm starting to set up services.cfg now.  
> > So...let's say I
> > want to monitor a process...let's say ypserv...on 20 
> > machines.  Do I really
> > have to set up a separate service definition for each host?  
> > 20 different
> > definitions for my ypserv check?  Why can't I just 
> > say..."here's how to
> > check for ypserv, now go look for it on these 20 boxes..."  
> > Seems like I
> > should just be able to give it a hostgroup, but the docs say 
> > that you must
> > define a specific host.
> > 
> > Once this Nagios is up and running, I'm going to set up 
> another Nagios
> > server for our ~2600 node Linux farm...and I'd like to 
> monitor several
> > services for each of those.  That's going to get real ugly 
> > real quick.  Am I
> > just missing something obvious?  Thanks.
> > 
> > Steve Gilbert
> > Unix Systems Administrator
> > sgilbert at nvidia.com
> > 
> > 
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