Host/Service association

[Christopher McCrory]

Hello...


On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 09:07, Patrick LeBoutillier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm planning to use Nagios to monitor a large network of machine that are
> all pretty
> much set up in the same fashion and offer the same basic services.
> 
> With this scenario it would be much easier for me create a host definition
> and in
> that host definition specify which services run on that host rather than the
> other way
> around (specifing the hosts in the service def).
> 
> This combined with the VERY useful "cfg_dir" option would allow me to simply
> drop
> a new file with the host def and have everything done in one operation.
> 
> Is there any way to do this?
> 

Yes, but not the way you stated it.

use 'hostgroup_name' in your services instead of 'host_name'

then you just add the new host to the hostgreoup

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templatetricks.html



> Thanks,
> 
> ---------------------
> Patrick LeBoutillier
> Laval, Quebec, Canada
> 
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