Template shortcut problem?

[Cook, Garry]

nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Hi all! I'm starting to play around with 2.0a and I have it working so
> now I'm looking at doing some things with template-magic that
> I probably
> should have done a long time ago. Unfortunately I'm doing something
> wrong and could use another pair of eyes. I basically have about 1600
> hosts that I'm looking at for this that are split up into 138
> hostgroups with most hosts being in two different hostgroups. I'm
> trying to use template magic to eliminate having to specify each as an
> argument to the
> hostgroup 'members' directive by using the 'hostgroups'
> directive in the
> host definition and to simplify my configs like so --
> 
> # Host definition
> define host {
>         use                     generic-host
>         host_name               <HOSTNAME REMOVED>
>         alias                   Alcoa Elementary/LEA
>         address                 <IP ADDRESS REMOVED>
>         hostgroups              all-east-tn,tnops-alcoa-tn         }
> 
[snip]
> Thanks!

In the host definition, try removing the 'host_name' line and changing
the hostgroups line to 'hostgroup_name'.

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)


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