Expand service group error in 43 line test config (why?)

[Yueh-Hung Liu]

you can refer to
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objecttricks.html

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Paul M. Dubuc <work at paul.dubuc.org> wrote:
> Eric B. wrote:
>> My real problem I think is that I 'whittled' it down in the wrong way
>> (thanks for the help, everyone). Below is what I was hoping to do, but
>> realize that b/c I HAVE to define a host w/ the escalation, I have to
>> retool how my monster config is done (which will really suck). Here's
>> what I was hoping to accomplish:
>>
>> 1) Create a generic service template that all service checks inherit
>> that adds them to the 'all-services' group.
>> 2) Create escalation rules that apply to the 'all-services' group.
>>
>> This worked (basically a more complicated example of  the config I gave)
>> until I added a 'all-services-foo' group (same method mentioned in #1
>> and #2) with different escalations.
>>
>>  From a design perspective, I know Nagios does a great job w/
>> templating, and object inheritance, but it really sucks that I have to
>> specify a host; that just increased the amount of objects easily by an
>> order or so of magnitude.
>>
>
> I don't see why.  All services have to be assigned to hosts anyway.  You can
> specify a comma separated list of hosts in your escalation or use hostgroups.
> I think you only need 2 additional objects to do what you want:  A hostgroup
> that consists of all hosts with services assigned and a host template to
> assign hosts to that group.  There's an example that might help here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27615125
>
>
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