Can you define an empty hostgroup?

[Samuel P Howard]

> Each defined hostgroup must have at least one member, either within the
> hostgroup{} definition itself or in by way of the hostgroups field in
> the host{} definition. I encountered the same issue with our automated
> config generation and created an anchor host that was never checked and
> assigned to those hostgroups that would intermittently have real hosts.
> The proper solution is to track which hostgroups have active members and
> then create them as needed.
>
> --
> Marc
I had hoped that creating a host definition with the hostgroups line 
would autocreate the hostgroup, but it gives an error on the 
pre-flight.  Is this a bug then?

Thanks,
Sam

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