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XI 2014R1.4
Firefox 31.0

Screen Service Dependencies

1) Add New
2) Clicks on Manage Services The service list is missing hostname in front of the services which is assigned to hostgroup.
How am I to know which host is the service from since there are duplicates?

This is a default behavior as you are implementing "time-saving tricks for object definitions". The service is tied up to many hosts (members of the hostgroup), so all instances of the service will be identical. I you created separate configs (added the service to different hosts), you would see the "expected" output in the CCM.

lmiltchev wrote:This is a default behavior as you are implementing "time-saving tricks for object definitions". The service is tied up to many hosts (members of the hostgroup), so all instances of the service will be identical. I you created separate configs (added the service to different hosts), you would see the "expected" output in the CCM.

So how do I know which one am I selecting?

rajasegar wrote:So how do I know which one am I selecting?

This is a good point, I am going to open a feature request to see if we can show the hostgroup before these service objects. I don't know if that is a relation that can easily be queried for though. There are some other issues with doing that though - what do you think we should do in the case of multiple hostgroups having the same service applied?

Our usual suggestion for this issue is to name your "generic" services differently, so that you don't have multiple hostgroup inherited services with the same names.

abrist wrote:

rajasegar wrote:So how do I know which one am I selecting?

This is a good point, I am going to open a feature request to see if we can show the hostgroup before these service objects. I don't know if that is a relation that can easily be queried for though. There are some other issues with doing that though - what do you think we should do in the case of multiple hostgroups having the same service applied?

Our usual suggestion for this issue is to name your "generic" services differently, so that you don't have multiple hostgroup inherited services with the same names.

Thanks.

We name the services the same because it is the same checks. Some have different intervals, notifications & thresholds.
I dont want to name them differently to facilitate future reporting.

Well, I don't think this feature request will be filled in the short term, so you may want to rename some of them to reflect which hostgroup they are attached to.