Specifying hostgroup in the host?

[Christian Schneemann]

On Tuesday February 24 2009 11:35:57 am Kevin Keane wrote:
> I am running nagios 3.0.6, and would like to find a better way to manage
> my hostgroups.
>
> In Nagios, you usually create a hostgroup by specifying all the relevant
> hosts in the hostgroup object. What I would like to do is instead tell
> each host object which hostgroup it belongs to. This is so that I don't
> have to touch the hostgroup definition when I add new hosts.
>
> Is this possible? Or is there some other way to accomplish the same goal?
Hi,

both is possible and documented in the docs 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host

"hostgroups: 	This directive is used to identify the short name(s) of the 
hostgroup(s) that the host belongs to. Multiple hostgroups should be 
separated by commas. This directive may be used as an alternative to (or in 
addition to) using the members directive in hostgroup definitions. "


Greetings,
	Christian


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