Feature request: Host & Service groups. The next level?

[nap]

Hi,

Isn't it the hostgroup_members property you looking for? (You add
groups to others groups).


Jean

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Jelle Smet <nagios at smetj.net> wrote:
> Hi List & Devs,
>
> I heavily rely for my setup on host and service groups.
> They come handy for all kind of goals, mainly
>
> - to create reports
> - to issue mass commands
> - to create visual overviews
>
> Having the ability to make groups a member of groups is already pretty nice
> from an organisation perspective.
> But I very often find myself in the situation where I need to create many
> group combinations.
> A small example:
>
> A group windows_hosts and linux_hosts
> A group production and test
> A group datacenter_us and datacenter_eu
>
> In order to create views and availability reports such as: "production
> windows hosts from the eu datacenter"
> I need to create a groups like
>
> datacenter_us_production_linux
> datacenter_eu_production_linux
> datacenter_eu_test_linux
> datacenter_us_test_linux
> ......
> And make the hosts member of these, ....
>
> This is still feasible for this amount of groups, but as you know, this
> grows rather fast and becomes extremely cumbersome.
>
> It would be nice to have the ability to add a host or service to multiple
> groups, like now and to have the ability to select hosts or services with
> AND OR NOT parameters.
>
> Show all hosts which are member of datacenter_us AND production AND
> linux_hosts
>
> We're going to patch all windows test servers in eu datacenter this weekend.
>
> Apply scheduled downtime on all hosts & services member of datacenter_eu AND
> test AND windows_hosts
>
>
>
> OR what would be completely awesome to have something like this (simplified
> example)
>
> define servicegroup{
>
> servicegroup_name                           linux_us_production
>
> servicegroup_members_occur            linux_hosts AND production AND
> datacenter_us
>
> }
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
>
> --
> Jelle Smet
> http://www.smetj.net
>
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