Re: [Nagios-devel] bug report & feature request: hostextinfo problems

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Re: [Nagios-devel] bug report & feature request: hostextinfo problems

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John Arley Burns wrote:
> I think what you want to do is put a "hostgroup" entry in your
> hostextinfo definition and then setup a "hostgroup" with your host
> list. Does hostextinfo support hostgroups? If not, perhaps it should.
>=20
> Another generic gripe: hostgroups should be inheritable: I should be
> able to have a hostgroup of hostgroups ad infinatum. This helps reduce
> the size of the config files when I have several hostgroups.
>=20

i don't think this is the best solution, since totally different host=20
types might be grouped in a hostgroup. you might end up with 2=20
hostgroups for each machine. one for logical groups and and for similar=20
host types. doesnt sound very good to me.

chris

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