defining a hostgroup

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Slutyer
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:14 AM
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net> <nagios-
> users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] defining a hostgroup
> 
> >> I currently setup hostgroups.cfg in which I have the following:
> >>
> >> define hostgroup{
> >> hostgroup_name linux
> >> alias Linux
> >> }
> >>
> >> When I run the -v test to see if everything is alright before
> >> turning on Nagios, it throws the following error:
> >>
> >> Invalid object definition of type 'hostgroup'. Any idea what
> >> I may be doing wrong?
> 
> *cough*
> 
> The manual clearly states that the "members" field is a requisite for
a
> hostgroup definition. Even if it doesn't have any members (just leave
> it blank).

Actually no, nagios will fail with a members line with no members. Try
it.

The OP has a completely valid hostgroup definition at least for 2.x; I
use the same thing extensively. If I remember correctly, 1.x would fail
without a members directive. 

OP: Are you sure that's the correct definition that is referenced in the
error? The line number should be given. Is it specifically complaining
about the line that contains 'define hostgroup{'? The test is at line
628 of xdata/xodtemplate.c and is pretty straightforward. It just looks
to see if the line contains the word 'hostgroup' (among others). That
would imply that there is a typo on the line or a hidden control
character or something that's not being shown in your example above.

--
Marc

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