Still some basic 101 items

[Lance Raymond]

I'm not sure I should say sorry for the basic questions as this is what the 
group is for, but seeing some of the in depth questions... talk about an 
inferiority complex.   Well, I now can see how to debug the start (thanks 
Marc) and figured my one problem.  But back to a basic few things.  I am 
looking to have nagios monitor 40 or so servers.  10 or so webservers, a few 
database, all have ssh, etc. so as I am trying to lay this out in my head, 
for an example, is this the right thinking.

Each box has an unique name in a server folder, /server/servername.cfg  
(that is what I have started and kind of working).
The webservers will have the following;
the define host {
host_name
address
use (I think this is my problem)
}

Now the above, the use I think is the actual hostgroup I wish it to belong 
to (ex, webserver, linux-server, etc.)  I am thinking I will have group 
temapltes, webserver will have an http test, linux-server can have an ssh 
check, load, users, etc. Now if the above is making sense, the use will have 
multiple, ex,
use   webserver, linux-server    (I assume this is possible)  That would 
take care of defining the default services to check for those particular 
box's.

I guess I am looking for both confirmation and suggestions on some high 
level down setups.  I don't want each host having 10 define_service items.  
I would rather say he is a webserver, and linux box.  That by nature will 
check x, y and z.  The problem so far is I have 4 servers, and even though I 
have an address in each, the use is still the default so ALL the box's 
details, users, swap usage, etc. is referenceing the localhost and not that 
individual box.

That is where I am stuck, the doc's are really not to helpful, but I am 
trying to understand more the seperate files.  How the use works, when to 
use a hostgroup, etc.  I will gladly provide cfg files or if someone has 
some basic things (aside from the install templates) or some help on the 
above it's appreciated.

Lr
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