Thomas Sluyter wrote: > On 28 Sep, 2006, at 15:46, Morris, Patrick wrote: > >>> The documentation clearly states that you can use either one >>> of these methodes to assign membership of a group. So why is >>> it that Nagios -forces- you to at least have one member in the >>> group definition? >> What version are you using? > > As I mentioned earlier: version 2.5. > >> The group does need to be defined separately from the hosts, and it >> does need to have at least one member, >> but (on the setups I work with, anyway) that member does *not* need >> to be defined in the hostgroup definition. > > Remarkable. What you describe is exactly what I want, but in my case > it appears to complain about the fact that my "define hostgroup" is > lacking a "members" line. Also, the Nagios documentation has the > "members" line coloured red in the hostgroup config section, > indicating it a requirement for a HG definition. >
Since 2.0 (I think), the 'members' line is optional. However, hostgroups still need to *have* members. The reason the 'members' line is optional is the introduction of the 'hostgroups' variable in the host object definition. So, unless at least one of your hosts have a line saying "hostgroups your-hostgroup-name" you *do* need the 'members' line. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ 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
