[Nagios-users] Host Groups / Definitions

2010-08-17 Thread Shane Killian
Hi guys, I'm monitoring a number of Windows servers and so far I am using only the templates provided. I would like to split my servers up using host groups so I will have each site and then the datacentre. I'm not sure how to go about this... although I have read the documentation I'm not

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Groups / Definitions

2010-08-17 Thread Assaf Flatto
Shane In the definitions of each host ( or template ) you have an option of defining the hostgroup this will group several host in to a group and will display them as a logical group . A host can be part of many host groups - there is not restriction on a host belonging to one hostgroup. To

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Groups / Definitions

2010-08-17 Thread steve f
...@irishjobs.ie To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:13:32 +0100 Subject: [Nagios-users] Host Groups / Definitions Hi guys, I’m monitoring a number of Windows servers and so far I am using only the templates provided. I would like to split my servers up using host groups so

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Groups / Definitions

2010-08-17 Thread Shane Killian
: steve f [mailto:a31mod...@hotmail.com] Sent: 17 August 2010 16:29 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host Groups / Definitions Gonna take a stab at this for you. Newer Nagios guy here as well. Here is a basic start You use a hostgroup.cfg file to create a group

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Groups / Definitions

2010-08-17 Thread Assaf Flatto
removing the template is not necessary unless you with to use the hostgroup name yourself. if you don't assign hosts to the group it will have not impact ( except for an empty group in the cgi) . As for the file name - I use the same naming conventions for my nagios config - it is easy to