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I currently monitor all of our Linux boxes for updates via Yum. When an update comes out for all boxes, we get many alerts but it would be more efficient for us to only get notified that one or more Linux boxes have updates.

Is there a way to group these services together to aggregate their status and notify on that?

You cannot directly alert on service groups, you could however wrap the output of multiple check commands "lets say three different services" and then have a fourth service pull the information in from them, or use that aggregated service to report status changes based on all of it's individual checks, this would be like essentially writing a plugin which wraps three checks into one. You could also take a look at nagios BPI, Home > BPI.

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... 29/details

It should already be installed so you do not need to use the ZIP located on that page.

BPI works slick. It reminds me a lot of HP (formerly Mercury) Business Availability Center.

Awesome! Glad we found a solution for you, do you have any additional questions on it?