On Nov 27, 2009, at 10:12 PM, D G Teed wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Marc Powell <m...@ena.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Different problem. If you're just wanting to ping them, the only purpose of 
>> the hostgroup would just be to group them for display in the GUI. You do 
>> need them in a hostgroup for that. They should be in a hostgroup anyway 
>> though, it's just better in the long-run.
> 
> As mentioned, a script can generate such config files.  But would they work?  
> Has anyone tried listing 400+ hosts in a hostgroup?

Yes, sure. My largest current hostgroup has 726 members. I have had them listed 
out as members in the hostgroup 'members' line in the past (nagios-1.x) but 
adding them to the hostgroup from the host{} definition is more convenient.

--
Marc



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