Ah! That would have saved me a lot of time! As it is it will be a nice clean up job... :-) --Ian <div>On 11/20/06, Thomas Sluyter <<a href="mailto:nagios@kilala.nl"> nagios@kilala.nl</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 20 Nov, 2006, at 16:12, Ian Collier wrote: > I don't think host_group is a valid parameter for service > descriptions - at > least according to the docs and certainly when I was getting > started with > 2.5 I tried this and could not make it work. > > What am I missing? Host groups can most definitely be used in service definitions. My whole Nagios configuration revolves around them :) The parameter you're looking for is "hostgroup_name". Unfortunately it is not mentioned in the basic documentation (Ethan?), but it is mentioned in the "Time saving tips" section. See: <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html#service">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html#service</a> Cheers! Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash <a href="http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV"> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>