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Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Terry wrote:
You could maybe write an "intelligent" plugin to query the host
information from another source based on the service name or something
but nagios needs to know the IP address somehow. Where would you want
to put this information so nagios can perform the service
appropriately?
Just to sum it up:
- David dislikes adding extra hosts
- David dislikes adding extra checks.
Not quite fair. I'm arguing that it would be far more maintainable not
that I like or dislike it. For 25 hosts with 4 services, would you
rather maintain 33 objects or 125?
33 = 25 hosts assigned to 4 hostgroups and 4 services bound to the
hostgroups
125 = 25 hosts, 25 service#1, 25 service#2, 25 service#3, 25 service #4?
Scale this up with hosts and services and it gets really bad.
If this hostgroup is important than how is each service to learn their
different address? Because it can't be from the host group nor from any
macro.
You're wrong. It just works.
As a new user I guess I assumed that assigning a service to a
hostgroup_name instead of a host_name would work (contrary to the
documentation BTW).
And guess what. It DOES WORK.
Take a look. Define three hosts, put them in hostgroup 'ssh'. define a
service 'ssh' assign it to hostgroup_name 'ssh'. It just works. The
check_ssh is invoked for each member of the hostgroup just like a newbie
like me would expect.
The problem is that for a service requiring something other than
$HOSTADDRESS$ it breaks down.
David
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