how to use multiple lines for hosts enumeration...

[Francois Meehan]

Hi Stanley,

Tried you suggestion, but starting nagios with -v returns:

Error: Could not add object property in file 
'/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg' on line 25.

Which is the line in question...

Regards,

Francois

Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> 
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:14:23PM -0400, Francois Meehan wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>In entering info in hostgroups.cfg, I have a group that will contain 40 
>>servers, how can I spread the servers into multiple lines?
>>
> 
> 
> perhaps like this
> 
> define hostgroup{
>         hostgroup_name          Canberra Data
>         alias                   Canberra LAN
>         contact_groups          network-admins
>         members                 
> tsitc,networks2,wins,DH5000,Sir5000,Sir_29_3,Sir_29_4,Sir_29_8,Sir_29_160,Sir_29_161,Disc_NG_10,Disc_NG_11,Disc_S
> G_15,Disc_SG_16,Disc_SG_17,Disc_N1_20,Disc_N1_21,Disc_N1_22,Disc_N1_23,Disc_S1_25,Disc_S1_26,Disc_S1_27,Disc_N2_30,Disc_N2_31,Disc_N2_32,Disc_N2_
> 33,Disc_S2_35,Disc_S2_36,Disc_S2_37,Disc_N3_40,Disc_N3_41,Disc_N3_42,Disc_S3_45,Disc_S3_46,Disc_S3_47,Disc_N4_50,Disc_N4_51,Disc_N4_52,Disc_S4_55
> ,Disc_S4_56,Disc_S4_57,Sir_C1_60,Sir_C1_61,Sir_C1_62,Sir_C1_63,Sir_C1_64,Sir_C1_65,Sir_C1_66,Sir_C1_67,Sir_C1_68,Sir_B1_70,Sir_B1_71,Sir_B1_72,Si
> r_B1_73,Sir_B1_75,Sir_B1_76,Sir_A1_80,Sir_A1_81,Sir_A1_82,Sir_A1_83,Sir_A1_84,Sir_A1_85,Sir_A1_86,Sir_A1_87,Sir_A1_88,Sir_A1_89,Sir_A1_180,Sir_A1
> _185,Sir_A1_186,Sir_A1_187,Sir_B3_90,Sir_B3_91,ServerIron,VirtualDNS,Sir_29_9,Sir_29_162,Disc_N3_43,Sir_C1_69,Disc_SG_18,Disc_S1_28,Sir_A1_92,Sir
> _A1_93,Sir_A1_94,dc-ups-snmp,FastIronII
>         }
> 
> The only limits are the length of the hostgroup buffers defined in the 
> headers (search the arhives on gmane for discussion about extending 
> those limits). 
> 
> It is only shells that interpret "\n" specially. To a C program like 
> Nag, "\n" is only another character from 'type char'. Nag interprets it 
> as white space.
> 
> Yours sincerely.
> 




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