How to define a service for a host_group?

[Kai Reese]

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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