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I'm trying to determine the best/easiest way to add several similar hosts using the least amount of work. I thought the way to do this would be to create service templates and then assign those templates to a hostgroup. This sort of works.

I have a Service Template called "DISK - /". Assigning this to a hostgroup appears to work (that is, the Service is being checked on the hosts within that hostgroup). However, I want to be able to change the value of the Checkcommand Arguments on only some of these hosts. I thought the way to do this would be to create a Service with the Config Name of the host on which I wanted to change these arguments and add the "DISK - /" Service Template to this Service. When I do this, no matter what I modify, even the Description, it does not take affect within Nagios core.

What am I doing wrong here? Thanks.

Nagios XI 2014R2.7

You're on the right track.

drug wrote:However, I want to be able to change the value of the Checkcommand Arguments on only some of these hosts.

2 options:
1) Create separate hostgroups for different arguments and have 2 services, or at least a check_command override that smacks your earlier defined template in different hostgroups.
or, more elegant, perhaps a bit more difficult to put together and understand:
2)Custom Object Variables
Note that custom object variables can be defined in host templates.

Thanks, it looks like the second option will do what we need.

Is there anything else we can help you with regarding this particular issue?

That's all for now thanks.