How to define a service for a host_group?

[Bill Jacqmein]

define service{
    hostgroup_name  <hostgroup_name>
    host_name          !<server1>
...
}

Will work and is how Im currently doing exclusions on my Nagios2 instance.



On 1/30/06, Kai Reese <foranor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I suppose you could then do something like
>
> define service{
>   host_name   <hostgroup_name>, !<server1>, !<server2>
> ..
> }
>
> That might check all the hosts except the 2 you exclused by !
>
> Kai
>
> PS: untested, I don't check services on hostgroups.
>
>
>
> On 1/27/06, Toto Capuccino <shoktai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > but that's another story mate ;)
> >
> > 2006/1/27, Don Lewis <donnell.lewis at icoretechnology.com>:
> > > Of course then if you wanted a certain host not to have that service
> > > monitored you would have to remove it from the group which in turn
> would
> > > remove it from anything else that is being monitored on it..;)
> > >
> > > -Don
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 11:33 +0100, Toto Capuccino wrote:
> > > > yes there is you create a houstgroup in hostgroups.cfg and then put
> > > > the hostgroup name in services.cfg
> > > >
> > > > define service{
> > > > ....
> > > > hostgroup_name               v240_servers
> > > > ..
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2006/1/27, Alberto <xagonzalezm at gmail.com>:
> > > >         Is there any way to define services for a hostgroup
> something
> > > >         like...
> > > >
> > > >         define service{
> > > >         ....
> > > >         host_name               v240_servers
> > > >         ..
> > > >         }
> > > >
> > > >         and not having to specify all hosts everytime I define a new
> > > >         service
> > > >
> > > >         define service{
> > > >         host_name   node1,node2,node4,...
> > > >         }
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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