Hostgroup definition

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> I know that lots of the documentation about how to configure Nagios's
> cfg files is in transition from 2.x (where you mostly did it one way)
> to 3.0 (where you mostly do it another way), but there's a point I'm
> not clear on.
> 
> It seems to me that it would be much easier to maintain if member
> machines were placed in hostgroups *in each member machine's cfg file*
> (cause yes, I'm using a separate file for each machine).
> 

You can do that.

> This doesn't seem to be the way Nagios expects me to do it, and I don't
> see that there's a way to do it this way; you appear to have to define
> the hostgroup in some amorphous 'somewhere', and then add all the hosts
> to it *there* (which means that there are two places you have to change
> when you add a new host, which I'm not fond of).
> 

Not really, no, but the hostgroup needs to be defined somewhere. When it
is, you can do something like the following

define host {
	use     template_with_all_required_variables
	hostgroups   hostgroup1,hostgroup2,hostgroup4,hostgroupn
	}

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