Nagios: Nested Host Groups?

[Andre Bergei]

Hi.

Attilio:
 Can you give breef guide on how you give a dummy host an state
Based on other service checks?

/andré

-----Original Message-----
From: Attilio Poleggi [mailto:atpol at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 6. november 2003 17:12
To: David Pace; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios: Nested Host Groups?


Is what i have done. Define a dummy host whose "state"
is given by check resuslts of other service's hosts. 
The proble is that clicking on this dummy host you'll
never get hosts detail!

regards
A

--- David Pace <dpace at igxglobal.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have nested host groups in Nagios?
>  For example, I would have a top level host group
> called 'Internet Services', and below that group I
> would have two sub-groups: 'Mail Servers' and 'Web
> Servers'.  When accessing through the web interface,
> I would see 'Internet Services' listed under Status
> Summary For All Host Groups.  When I click on
> 'Internet Services', I would be brought to a page
> with the two sub-groups: 'Mail Servers' and 'Web
> Servers'.  Clicking on either one of these
> sub-groups wou
> ld then have a list of all hosts contained within
> the selected sub-group.
> 
> I have tried to edit the template files by adding
> the sub-groups as members of the top level host
> group and defining the sub-groups below with all of
> their members.  This results in an error saying that
> there is no entry in the hosts file for the
> specified sub-groups.  Do I have to define these
> sub-groups as 'dummy' hosts in the hosts file first?
> 
> Is it possible to have nested host groups in Nagios?
>  If so, how can this be accomplished?  Thanks in
> advance.
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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