hostgroups causing hairloss

[Martin Melin]

Something that immediately comes to mind:
What are your regex_matching settings? use_regex_matching and
use_true_regex_matching

Regards
Martin

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com> wrote:

> I am at a point that I am looking for gremlins, no other cause can be
> found.
>
> I am replacing a very old Nagios install with Nagios 3.0.6, no
> importing, a fresh install, new hardware, a network audit and entering
> all hosts and services manually. It seems that no matter what I do I
> keep getting some hosts added to a host group, even though I clearly did
> not define them as part of the host group.
>
> My hostgroups.cfg,
>
> ###############################################################################
> define hostgroup {
>         hostgroup_name  AUTH_DNS
>         alias           Authoritative DNS
>         members         CDC-Ns1auth,CDC-NSMS,IDC-Ns2auth,SDC-Ns3auth
>         }
>
> define hostgroup {
>         hostgroup_name  CACHE_DNS
>         alias           Caching DNS
>         members         CDC-Dnscache,CDC-Ns1,IDC-Ns2,SDC-Ns3
>         }
>
> My hosts/CDC-Ns1auth.cfg,
>
> ###############################################################################
> define host {
>         host_name                       CDC-Ns1auth
>         alias                           ns1auth.tls.net
>         display_name                    TLS DNS server
>         address                         65.124.104.30
>         parents                         null
>         hostgroups                      null
>         check_command                   check-host-alive
>         use                             generic-host
>         initial_state                   o
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         check_interval                  15
>         retry_interval                  1
>         check_period                    24x7
>         process_perf_data               1
>         retain_status_information       1
>         contact_groups                  host-oncall
>         notification_interval           15
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            d,u,r
>         register                        1
>         }
>
> Everything looks fine, but when I start Nagios and look at View
> Config->Object Type->Host Groups, I see this!
>
> Group Name      Description             Host Members
> CACHE_DNS       Caching DNS service     CDC-Dnscache , CDC-Ns1 ,
> CDC-Ns1auth ,
> IDC-Ns2 , IDC-Ns2auth , SDC-Ns3 , SDC-Ns3auth
>
> The CACHE_DNS host group should only contain CDC-Ns1, IDC-Ns2, and
> SDC-Ns3. Why are the other hosts in there? I have tried renaming, I have
> tried starting fresh with new config files, new retention data, new
> object cache. Yet the hostgroup CACHE_DNS still contains hosts I did not
> define to be there.
>
> Any help is appreciated, clues, clue bats, links, (yes I looked at the
> change log and searched for an answer, no luck).
>
> Thanks,
>
> DAve
>
>
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