Sub Groups within a group

[pmams]

How do you define a sub-group within a Main group ?

e.g Main group "PRODUCTION" & sub group "Prod App Servers"

[slansing]

Is this speaking in regards to Hostgroup rules? As in a hostgroup within a hostgroup? Or a service group within a host group?

[pmams]

i'd appreciate it in any form "either hostgroup of a host group or service group within a host group".

i basicly want to break down projects under each environment " for Dev servers { break it into sub groups such as Web Servers, App servers, DB Servers etc"

[pmams]

i'd love to break down projects or classify servers within Host Groups.

for every environment "DEV | QA | PROD", i wanna have an extendable groups/service group "Web servers, DB Servers, LDAP Servers etc"

[abrist]

The trick here is to use the optional directive hostgroup_members. See my mock-up below:

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define hostgroup{
        hostgroup_name          production ; The name of the hostgroup
        alias                   Servers in Production ; Long name of the group
        hostgroup_members:      prod_app_servers,prod_db_servers    ;This optional directive can be used to include hosts from other "sub" host groups in this host group. Specify a comma-delimited list of short names of other host groups whose members should be included in this group.
        }

define hostgroup{
        hostgroup_name          prod_app_servers
        alias                   Production app Servers
        members                 server1,server2
        }

define hostgroup{
        hostgroup_name          prod_db_servers
        alias                   Production Database Servers
        members                 server3,server4
        }