Selecting hosts in both hostgroups (union problem).
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Fri Oct 28 11:02:19 CEST 2005
John P. Rouillard wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I am using nagios2.0b4 and have a problem where I need to run a
> service check on only hosts that are common to two hostgroups.
>
> E.G. http_servers & dont_page_for_these_hosts
>
> I looking through the code, I didn't see anything similar to
>
> hostgroup_names hostgroup1,&hostgroup2
>
> to make a union of the two hostgroup sets so I figured I could do:
>
> hostgroup1, !(hostgroup of all hosts except the hosts in hostgroup2)
>
> However how do I create the second group?
>
> Sadly something like:
>
> define hostgroup{
> hostgroup_name and_hostgroup2
> members *
> hostgroup_members !hostgroup2
> }
>
> doesn't work. So does anybody have any bright ideas? I may have 30 or
> 40 services defined this way, and it would be much nicer and less
> error prone to define one hostgroup as a mask rather than define 40
> hostgroups one for each service pairing.
>
Create a second hostgroup containing the hosts this check is supposed to
be run on. They obviously have something in common anyways, so it's not
necessarily bad logic.
> Also is there a way to create an "invisible" hostgroup that won't show
> up in the web interface, but works in the configuration files?
>
Not without patching the cgi's, no.
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Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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