Hostgroups for convenience, not display?

[Jeremy Madea]

Thanks. That's less than intuitive... :-)

I wasn't able to get a "null contact" to work, so I created a 'nobody'
contact. 

Also, I found what I think is a documentation bug. Nagios reported errors in
the configuration when I left out the email address, and then again when I
left out the host and service notification commands (even after I set the
timeperiods to 'none' and the options to 'n' for both hosts and service
notifications.) If I read the docs right, those properties are -supposed- to
be optional. Can someone confirm that?

Anyway, many thanks for the quick response. 

-j

--
Jeremy Madea
Senior Systems Engineer
MDL Information Systems



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: Jeremy Madea; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Hostgroups for convenience, not display?
> 
> 
> Yep. The most straightforward approach (if you're using cgi
> authentication) is just set the contactgroup for the hostgroup to
> something that has a null contact or a contact that no one 
> ever logs in
> as (like nobody). 
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Madea [mailto:J.Madea at mdl.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:26 PM
> > To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > 
> > 
> > Is it possible to define a hostgroup which is not displayed on the
> status
> > pages?
> > 
> > Maybe I'm just approaching it wrong. I'd like to display hostgroups
> for
> > each
> > of our networks in different geographical locations such as Japan,
> > Germany,
> > and the UK. I'd also like to have a hostgroup containing 
> just our vpn
> > servers so I can use it in a service definition but I don't want to
> > display
> > it because it would just duplicate information in the other 
> hostgroups
> > anyway.
> > 
> > How is that best done?
> > 
> > -j
> > 
> > --
> > Jeremy Madea
> > Senior Systems Engineer
> > MDL Information Systems
> > 
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
> > Welcome to geek heaven.
> > http://thinkgeek.com/sf
> > _______________________________________________
> > Nagios-users mailing list
> > Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when
> > reporting any issue.
> > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent 
> to /dev/null
> 


-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Welcome to geek heaven.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null