> On 25/05/07 06:11 AM, Patryk Lasoñ wrote:
> > On pi±, maj 25, 2007 at 10:18:35 +0100, Simon Beale wrote:
> >> Under the service definition change hostgroup to hostgroup_name.
> >>
> >> Note a service can have both a host_name list and a hostgroup_name list,
> >> and the check will be run for both lists.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
>
> What can also help is using "hostgroups" in host definitions instead of
> maintaining a list of hosts in the hostgroup definition. Together with
> templates you could get something like:
>
> define host
> name wns_host
> hostgroups wns
> use default_host
> register 0
> }
>
> define hostgroup{
> hostgroup wns
> alias WNS Cluster
> }
>
> #for each wns server:
> define host{
> host_name wnsXXX
> alias blah
> address 1.2.3.4
> use wns_host
> }
>
> define service{
> hostgroup_name wns
> service_description SSH
> check_command check_ssh
> use default_service
> }
>
> This is assuming that default_host and default_service are templates
> with all your defauklt configuration parameters. "register 0" tells
> Nagios that this is not an actual definition, but you can use it in
> other definition with "use TEMPLATE_NAME"
I prefer list of hosts in the hostgroup definition, cause adding
i.e 1000 nodes is just defining them and adding to the list.
Moving hosts between hostgroups is easier.
But I can be wrong, I'm not a Nagios expert
.Cheers,
Patryk
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