Hey :) >> Create a hostgroup and apply the services to that group. Then all you >> need to do is make sure new hosts belong to the right hostgroup. > > Would you mind giving me an example of this? I'm not sure exactly what > you mean.... according to the documentation:
This is -exactly- how I'll be configuring our Nagios environment and it's gonna save me a boatload of work :) (>300 hosts, >3000 checks) What you do is this: 1. Define a set of service checks you would like to assign to multiple hosts at once. For example: all Solaris boxen would need checks regarding cpu load, ram, swap, partitions root/var/tmp and metastat. At the top of the file, put all variables that are the same for each check into a template. Make sure that all your checks use this template with the "use" directive. 2. Create a service group called Solaris-checks. 3. Create a host group called Solaris-hosts. Now comes the fun part: 4. Add all Solaris service checks to Solaris-checks. 5. Add all Solaris hosts to Solaris-hosts. 6. Add Solaris-hosts to each Solaris check as a subscriber by adding it to the -template- at the top of the file. And presto! You now have a group of hosts subscribed to a group of services! The deal with the service groups is only for display purposes BTW, but I thought I'd throw it in there :) Want to add additional services to all these hosts at once? Just define a service check and let it use the template. Want to add some Solaris boxen to the network? Just add them to the Solaris host group. Cheers! Thomas _______________________________________________ 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
