Newbie question..services and hostgroups

[Chris]

Will this work with Escalations?

-C

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Cook,
Garry
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 2:37 PM
To: Steve Gilbert; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups


Found it, not in the FAQ, but in the regular documentation. It is a
little hard to get to, so here's a direct link:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templatetricks.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> Of Cook, Garry
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: Steve Gilbert; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups
>
>
> I could swear that this was in the FAQ
> (http://www.nagios.org/faqs), but
> I can't seem to find it right now. I'm sure someone will clue us in...
>
> Yes, you can do exactly what you are asking for, apply a service check
> to an entire hostgroup. In the service definition you'll need
> to change
> the 'host_name' to 'hostgroup_name', then just follow it with a
> hostgroup instead of a host. Also, should you ever want to apply a
> service check to all hosts, you can simply use
>
> host_name	*
>
> in the definition.
>
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
> 303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> > Of Steve Gilbert
> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:22 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups
> >
> >
> > I'm setting up Nagios 1.1 for the first time, and I'm a
> > little confused
> > about something.  I've got my hosts.cfg file done (~180
> > hosts) as well as my
> > hostgroups.cfg.  I'm starting to set up services.cfg now.
> > So...let's say I
> > want to monitor a process...let's say ypserv...on 20
> > machines.  Do I really
> > have to set up a separate service definition for each host?
> > 20 different
> > definitions for my ypserv check?  Why can't I just
> > say..."here's how to
> > check for ypserv, now go look for it on these 20 boxes..."
> > Seems like I
> > should just be able to give it a hostgroup, but the docs say
> > that you must
> > define a specific host.
> >
> > Once this Nagios is up and running, I'm going to set up
> another Nagios
> > server for our ~2600 node Linux farm...and I'd like to
> monitor several
> > services for each of those.  That's going to get real ugly
> > real quick.  Am I
> > just missing something obvious?  Thanks.
> >
> > Steve Gilbert
> > Unix Systems Administrator
> > sgilbert at nvidia.com
> >
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