Building Hostgroups using Host Config Files

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Todd Barbera
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:06 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Building Hostgroups using Host Config Files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Nagios 2.0 using Apache in an SSL setup. In my
> configuration, I decided not to use a single hosts.cfg file, but
instead
> break down my host entries via directories (i.e.,
> etc/servers/sunservers.cfg, etc/servers/windows.cfg). My question is
can I
> create a hostgroup entry that references an individual config file as
it's
> input as opposed to having a "members" entry line that contains 50
hosts
> or more? Thanks for the feedback.

No you can't. A suitable alternative for you might be using the
"hostgroups" directive in each of your host definitions.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#host


You could even simplify that further by using a per-file template.
Presuming you already have a generic global host template defined you
could do the following in etc/servers/sunservers.cfg -

define host {
	use generic-host
	name sunservers
	hostgroups sunservers
	register 0
}

define host{
        use                     sunservers
        host_name               Sun_Host_1
        alias                   This is my Sun Host.
        address                 127.0.0.1
        }

define host{
        use                     sunservers
        host_name               Sun_Host_2
        alias                   This is my Second Sun Host.
        address                 127.0.0.2
        }

I haven't actually done this myself but I expect the template
inheritance to allow it.

--
Marc


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