On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Forsaken wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm fairly new to dealing with nagios. I'm currently running nagios > 2.10 on OpenBSD (using their package) > > My first question is thus - > > Are hostgroups pretty much just a cosmetic gathering for viewing in a > web interface, or can they serve some practical use during > configuration. > > For example, if I define a hostgroup of servers as web servers, is > there any way for me to then define a service check for http that can > reference the hostgroup instead of having to list individual member > servers?
Yes, you can specify hostgroup_name instead of hostname. Nearly all my configs are set up like this, even in the case of one-shot servers, to make scaling easier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
