Assigning Services to Hosts/Hostgroups

[Jim Avery]

2009/4/3 Chris Pepper <pepper at cbio.mskcc.org>:
>        Thanks! It seems somewhat backwards to me that I cannot specify in the
> service directly, and this keeps tripping me up.

A service is always uniquely identified by both the host name and the
service description.  If you keep that in mind, hopefully it will make
a little more sense.  If you really want to specify your services in
your host definitions ...

You can create a hostgroup which is going to contain all hosts with
the service you want to add.

You can create a service associated with that hostgroup (rather than a
single host).

You could also create a host template which just sets the hostgroup
and nothing else.

You can then add the service to a host by simply applying that host
template to the host.

If you call the template something appropriate like
"hostgroup-service-ftp" it should become quite intuitive.

You can read up on how to apply mutiple templates to an object at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html

hth,

Jim

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