Problem with hostextinfo and hostgroup_name

[Fredrik Wänglund]

You can't use 'hostgroup_name' in extinfo-definitions. Use 'host_name' 
instead...
Nagios don't check the extinfo-files because it's a part of the 
web-interface.

/FredrikW


andrius at skynet.lt wrote:

>Hello, all,
>
>I have following setup in my hostextinfo.cfg:
>
>define hostextinfo{
>	name            mysql
>	icon_image      sun.png
>	icon_image_alt  Some Server
>	vrml_image      sun.png
>	statusmap_image sun.gd2
>	2d_coords       100,250
>	3d_coords       100.0,50.0,75.0
>	register        0
>}
>
>define hostextinfo{ 
>	use             mysql
>	hostgroup_name  mysql-servers
>} 
>
>Problem is, that nagios silently accepts this with no errors
>or warnings, but I still cannot see sun.png shining in my status map for
>all servers.
>
>Idea behind this setup is to be able to apply "template", named "mysql"
>to all servers, that are members of hostgroup "mysql-servers". 
>
>If this is not possible - can someone propose simple way to apply this template
>to multiple servers without manually defining each server - when you have 150 and
>more the same type servers it is an issue...
>
>Thanks,
>Andrius
>
>
>
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