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Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2017 10:42 am**

I'm running Nagios Core 4.2.2.
I have a servicegroups.cfg file in the /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects folder which reads as follows:

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define servicegroup {      
       servicegroup_name NETWORKS 
       alias Network Loads 
       members dev,Network Load,aspcon,Network Load,aspent,Network Load
}

However, once I add the following to my service definitions

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       servicegroups                    NETWORKS

I get these errors when I try to restart Nagios.

Error: Could not find any servicegroup matching 'NETWORKS'
Error: Failed to process servicegroup names for service 'Network Load' on host 'dev'

If I remove the line from my service definition for 'dev', then I get the same error for one of the others. So it looks as if the servicegroups.cfg file is either not being read, or it has a syntax error of some description.

Can anyone help me resolve this please?

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:31 pm**

Did you add an entry in the nagios.cfg file like the example below so Nagios knows to look in the servicegroups.cfg file for those entries?

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cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/servicegroups.cfg

It sounds like it may be missing.

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:13 am**

I dont really know what the default is, but I always add:

register 1

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:50 pm**

Where do you add the "register 1" to?
The template or the service check?

When you create a template, you should use

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register 0

That tells Nagios that the entry is a template and to not load it as an active check.

The service check itself should have

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resister 1

That tells Nagios that the entry an active check and runs it.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:55 am**

tgriep wrote:Did you add an entry in the nagios.cfg file like the example below so Nagios knows to look in the servicegroups.cfg file for those entries?
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cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/servicegroups.cfg
It sounds like it may be missing.

Many thanks. This fixed it. Totally forgot about registering the new servicegroups.cfg file in the nagios.cfg file.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:26 am**

Your very welcome. Shall I close and lock up this post as solved?

Posted: **Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:53 am**

Yes I'm happy for this one to be closed now. Thanks.

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