On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Mark Gius wrote: > Morris, Patrick wrote: > > Hi Dale! > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > > > > I don't seem to be able to do this: > > # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs > # > # > define hostgroup { > hostgroup_name all-hst > alias all-hst > members * > } > > # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs > # > # > define hostgroup { > hostgroup_name basic_svc_snmp-svc > alias basic_svc_snmp-svc > hostgroup_members all-hst,!basic_svc_ns-svc > } > > If it is not possible at this point, I'd like to suggest it as a > somewhat obvious extension to hostgroup definitions. > > > > It's not possible now -- members of hostgroups need to be hosts, and > can't be other hostgroups. > > > According to > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#hostgroup, you > can have "sub" hostgroups. So in theory he should be able to specify a > hostgroup that contains every host, subtracting another group.
Well, I just learned something. That definitely isn't doable in Nagios 2.x (you didn't mention which version you were using, so I was going based on what was in front of me at the time). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ 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