Make a Host Group not visible on web interface?

[olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com]

If you add "register                0" to your hostgroup definition it won't 
show up on the web interface, but you can still assign services to it as per 
normal.  Very useful technique. 

Cheers,
Erik Larkin


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark A. Lappin <MarkL at lmfj.com>
To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 9:49:04 AM
Subject: [Nagios-users] Make a Host Group not visible on web interface?

Good Morning All -

Is there anyway to define a host group, assign hosts to that host group but not 
have the membership or the host group show up on under "Host Groups" on the web 
interface?

I have several things which run like services and several that don't, for the 
purposes of defining service checks, I would much rather set the services up to 
look at host groups instead of hosts but I'm ending up with so many host groups 
that the host groups become almost meaningless in the web interface.

Example - I'm watching about 65 printers with Nagios.  Different makes, 
different models.   Each printer has any number of physical trays but monitoring 
them, they are all a bit different.  One of the things I need to monitor is 
paper tray status.   Some printers count manual feed tray as tray 1, some as 
tray 2, some as tray 3.  Some have a tray 2 and tray 3 but not tray 1.  So on my 
service checks, I'm applying this to all my network printers and then on the 
different tray checks, exclude certain printers.  A little difficult to keep 
track of.  I would like to put the printers in some host groups such as Tray1, 
Tray2, Tray3, etc, set services to check those host groups rather than keep 
excluding hosts on the services.  But host groups Tray1, Tray2, Tray3 are 
meaningless via the web interface so I would like them not to show.

Nagios Core - 3.2.3

ML


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