Another way to make scaling host configurations easier is to use the service -> hostgroup -> host
relationship in your configuration. For example, we have one set of SNMP-based checks that work for the Net-SNMP SNMp agent, and another set that work with the commercial SysEdge agent.. So, combining the previous poster's idea with this relationship, we create a base sysedge-host host template and then add the host template and all of the Sysedge checks to the sysedge-hosts host group. This way hosts can inherit from a single template and get all the checks associated with that group. We use this dual template and host group method when we have custom attributes that we need to add in order for the custom checks to work .. in cases where you don't have custom attributes like SNMP ports and community strings etc, you could just create related groups of services, add them to a host group, then just add new or existing hosts to the host group through the host group attribute of the host .. and voila .. done. - max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null