<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hello, everyone –<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Regarding Nagios 2.0, is there a way to template-ize a bunch of services in a bundle of sorts and apply that to a host? We have a lot of service checks that will be applied to many hosts across the board; instead of adding each host to each service check (and updating the files N times for N services every time I add a host), I’d rather define one object that encompasses many services and just apply *that* to each host (updating the file in 1 place per host). Is there a way to do this?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> For example, it'd be nice to be able to create something, a service_bundle (my term) perhaps, that brings together a bunch of checks; something like this:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> define service_bundle {<o:p></o:p> name linux_box<o:p></o:p> use_services check_ping,check_ssh,check_stuffs,check_zoinks,etc,etc<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> define service_bundle {<o:p></o:p> name webserver<o:p></o:p> use_services check_http,check_whatevs<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> And then:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> define host {<o:p></o:p> name cc51-91<o:p></o:p> use webserver<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Seems like this should be something I can do; however, I’ve been reading the documentation:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The list of objects that can be template-ized is there, and the closest thing is service groups, but can I actually apply these to hosts? I was looking at the template tricks docs too, and while there’s some good stuff there (yay, wildcards!), it’s not quite what we want.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’m probably missing something obvious…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks for your time.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Elizabeth Genco<o:p></o:p> Senior Systems Administrator<o:p></o:p> Community Connect, Inc<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>