Hostgroup Members

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Brandon Phelps <bphelps at gls.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are using a fairly old version of Nagios (1.4.1) which has been running great for years and is in production on 100+ servers so we are a bit hesitant to update.  If it ain't broke don't fix it, right?  Anyway, one minor problem is the fact that in the nagios configuration, the members directive for a hostgroup can only support a certain number of entries, due to the fact that the members directive takes a comma delimited list of members and that list, it seems, can only be a maximum of 2000ish (I think, I don't recall off hand) characters.  Like:
>
> hostgroup {
>        ...
>        members = Member1,Member2,Member3,...,Member200, Member201, Member202
> }
>
> My question is, do newer version of nagios remove this limitation?  It isn't really a huge deal since we can simply create additional hostgroups when we reach the limit on one, however if this is fixed in a newer version then that, for us, would be a good reason to upgrade.
>

In the new (3.x) version we negate this by using wildcard / regex matching

"members = Member.* "

if some hosts matching the patten should not be in the group you can
do "!member8"

"members = member.*,!member8 "

there is a lot about this in the Nagios admin guide.


Ritchie
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> Thanks,
>
> Brandon
>
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