<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>New to nagios</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi, I'm new to nagios but have a question on the hosts.cfg file and the template. So my question is do I need to define each host in this file or can I user the template e.g. sun-servers to get all of the host names and IP addresses. If the first is the case even with the template then how is it really useful it would seem I still need to enter the information into the hosts.cfg file and when you are dealing with 200+ servers it gets fairly big. Thanks in advance, Robert </BODY> </HTML>