Is it possible to group hosts together in the status map?

[Tedman Eng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eivind Olsen [mailto:eivind at aminor.no]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:12 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Is it possible to group hosts together in the
> status map?
> 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I'm currently setting up Nagios, and one of the things I'm wondering 
> about is: can I somehow group several hosts together? I know I can 
> either hardcode coordinates (with lines going everywhere?) or 
> I can set 
> a parent-relationship, but how can I do this if I for example have 20 
> hosts on the same network segment, and I want to split 5 of 
> them into a 
> separate group on the status map?

You can create a dummy host and make it the parent of the hosts you want to
group visually.

Use the check_dummy plugin for its check command definition, or if you want
to get fancy you can use check_cluster.


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