Services per hostgroups
jeff vier
jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com
Tue Sep 23 02:30:05 CEST 2003
hostgroup_name
and either host_name or hostgroup_name can have many (comma-separated)
entries.
like:
define service{
use generic-service
host_name host1,host2,host3
hostgroup_name grp1,grp2,grp3
service_description Current Users
is_volatile 0
parallelize_check 1
check_period 24x7
max_check_attempts 3
normal_check_interval 10
retry_check_interval 2
contact_groups admins
notification_interval 240
notification_period 24x7
notification_options w,u,c,r
check_command check_local_users!75!150
}
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:35, Mark Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Nagios for the first ime and I am impressed!
>
> But I am missing one thing:
> A service can be defined per host - the sample file shows about 20 or even more different hosts (servers, printers, routers, etc).
> Now for each of these hosts, there is the same ping service defined over and over again...
> This seems like a huge pain to maintain... Even if it is possible to use only one with a list of hostnames like
>
> hostname linux_box1,linuxbox2
>
> (I dont know if this works or not) it would still be rather complex to maintain this for a big number of servers.
>
> Isn't it possible to use hostgroups instead? What else are the hostgroups for, if not for this?
> So there would be one ping service setup for
>
> hostgroup all_nodes
>
> and a hostgroup "all_nodes" would be configured accordingly. SMTP and POP could be configured for "all_mailservers", etc...
>
> I tried to just use a hostgroup name instead of the hostname, but Nagios didn't like that, it said the groupname was not a valid
> host name...
>
> Is there anything like this already there that I don't know of?
>
> Thanks,
>
> MARK
>
>
>
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