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<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to set-up
Nagios on a small number of machines before we decide whether to increase the
number of systems we watch. I'm slightly confused by the use of groups in
the configuration files.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm currently trying
to set-up services.cfg and it seems quite inefficient. The sample file
appears to call checks in seperate statements, for the same machine. This
means if you want to run 14 checks on 1 machine you have to write 14 "define
service" statements. If I then have 12 machines to run those on, surely
the services.cfg file beomes huge!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to get my
head around the use of groups... is it possible to write a check list for a
group rather than a host meaning that I only have to write my "define service"
statements once. Meaning the start of the statement would
appear:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2> <FONT face=Courier> define
service {</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT
face=Courier> <FONT
size=2>group_name linux-servers</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Courier
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rather
than:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003> <FONT
face=Courier> <FONT size=2>define service {</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT
face=Courier> <FONT
size=2>host_name
linuxserver1</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Courier
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would make sense
for this to be possible but as I'm new to the software I'm not sure how to
acheive this. Also is the same true for dependencies? Can I make
groups of machines dependent on 1 host instead of writing dependencies for every
machine?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help and
assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in
advance</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=235324611-18122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris
Jackson</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>