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guys, i am not saying you did not answered my question and appreciate your help and support with regard, though i just wanted to make sure i am doing the right thing when configuring host groups, host templates & hosts, if enforcing template on host group does not work OK though just want to ver...

thanks for replying such an elaborated informative reply tmcdonald,

so how do you address this claims that i have in my first post?

itzik

tmcdonald you miss the point of this whole thread, i have the hosts already assigned to a host group and even if i don`t adding them its ok and i agree with you that if i am already adding them (which is fat easy then adding template to each) i can insert them the template though that`s not the poin...

tmcdonald, i am not sure if i understood what you wrote though i think that what you suggested (if i understood right) is going 200 hosts one by one and adding the template manually... that is exactly what i don`t want to do. let me know if i understood you right and if not please elaborate further,...

arbist,

thanks for posting,

configure hostgroups on hosts through a template though...

what do you mean by that?

Hi Slansing, I just explained a scenario why going through 500 hosts is tedious so saying I need to go all over it is unnecessary, more over, I am not sure with regard to the REAL intention of the option to add host groups within the host templates? what do the writer meant? http://www.imageshost.eu...

Hi, sorry for the late response i don`t get notification for new posts (need to fix that with configuration)... the hosts belong to the host groups from within host group definition using the "members" directive templates.cfg: ###############################################################...

Hi box, thanks for replying to my post and trying to assist, my only intention is to create host template and assign it to host group contain multiple hosts, i have tried using additive + sign on hosts and fail each time that is why I sort of gave up, maybe I am doing something wrong if you can elab...

anyone?

thanks for replying abrist, so the best practice according to your comment is to add a template to 500 hosts and each and for instance if I would like to add another template to this hosts I need to manually go all over these 500 hosts and add this template to them? or maybe adding the host template...