Fwd: Multiple host in hosts.cfg

[Ian Collier]

Ah! That would have saved me a lot of time! As it is it will be a nice clean
up job... :-)

--Ian

On 11/20/06, Thomas Sluyter <nagios at kilala.nl> wrote:
>
> On 20 Nov, 2006, at 16:12, Ian Collier wrote:
>
> > I don't think host_group is a valid parameter for service
> > descriptions - at
> > least according to the docs and certainly when I was getting
> > started with
> > 2.5 I tried this and could not make it work.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> Host groups can most definitely be used in service definitions. My
> whole Nagios configuration revolves around them :)
>
> The parameter you're looking for is "hostgroup_name". Unfortunately
> it is not mentioned in the basic documentation (Ethan?), but it is
> mentioned in the "Time saving tips" section.
>
> See: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html#service
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Thomas
>
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