hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

[Daniel Wittenberg]

Basically because all the backend files are controlled via puppet, to a
number of nagios servers, but the actual host assignments are controlled
by third-party package.  So, the "base" configs about all the services
are pushed to every server, and then the other tool determines the best
"balance" of devices per nagios server.  If that makes sense.  So
instead of maintaining service and hostgroup configs constantly across
all the servers, I can push out one set of configs, and if there's a
host pushed to that server which needs those configs, they are there and
ready to go.

That help?

Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:10 AM
To: Daniel Wittenberg
Cc: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

On 11/02/2010 02:59 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> Ok, so this was a basic test, I have a GENERIC_PING check and it had
the
> fake host in there and was working fine, as soon as I removed it (so
no
> members defined):
> 
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service
> (config file '/etc/nagios/objects/services/GENERIC_PING.cfg', starting
> on line 1)
> 
> # cat /etc/nagios/objects/services/GENERIC_PING.cfg
> define service{
>          service_description     GENERIC_PING
>          display_name            Generic ping, typically used for
parent
> hosts
>          hostgroup_name          GENERIC_PING
>          use                     generic-service
>          check_command           check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
>          }
> 
> define hostgroup{
>          hostgroup_name          GENERIC_PING
>          alias                   GENERIC_PING
> }
> 
> So is this a different problem then what you were looking at maybe ?
> 

Yes. That's not just an empty hostgroup, but an empty hostgroup to
which services are assigned. That's supposed to be an error. What's
the reason for using empty hostgroups to assign services to?

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