Hi all,
I'm picking up this old tread, as I'm about to start restructuring
parts of my Nagios configuration. In my current configuration I've
created host groups to which I've linked both hosts and services.
Example: I have a host group called linux-servers, to which all
linux servers are
I think this is more a personal (or site) preference.
But using host groups can be very useful to eg
insure that
all windows machines get thus-and-such service checks
all RedHat machines get thus-and-such service checks
etc
In other words, a wildcard or hostgroup tag for a service check
can
I should have been more precise regarding the cluttering of the display - it
was the hostgroup display I was referring to. :/
Would it be an idea to as much as possible use this configuration method:
hosts --- hostgroups --- services? To elaborate some: Hosts are always
connected to host groups,
Thanks for the reply. I'll read the documents you listed.
Meanwhile, I have a design question: What's the best way to set up a service
check to be executed on a selected few (or maybe all for that matter) nodes?
Say I need to monitor a particular process (lets call this service A) on a
number of
Hello all,
I'm new to Nagios, and are planning on using Nagios for monitoring our
network of Linux servers.
Are there any best practice documents on how to manage the different
definitions such as hostgroups, services, servicegroups, and so forth in an
enterprise environment?
Regards,
Kenneth
