Basically because all the backend files are controlled via puppet, to a number of nagios servers, but the actual host assignments are controlled by third-party package. So, the "base" configs about all the services are pushed to every server, and then the other tool determines the best "balance" of devices per nagios server. If that makes sense. So instead of maintaining service and hostgroup configs constantly across all the servers, I can push out one set of configs, and if there's a host pushed to that server which needs those configs, they are there and ready to go.
That help? Dan -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:10 AM To: Daniel Wittenberg Cc: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement On 11/02/2010 02:59 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: > Ok, so this was a basic test, I have a GENERIC_PING check and it had the > fake host in there and was working fine, as soon as I removed it (so no > members defined): > > Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service > (config file '/etc/nagios/objects/services/GENERIC_PING.cfg', starting > on line 1) > > # cat /etc/nagios/objects/services/GENERIC_PING.cfg > define service{ > service_description GENERIC_PING > display_name Generic ping, typically used for parent > hosts > hostgroup_name GENERIC_PING > use generic-service > check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% > } > > define hostgroup{ > hostgroup_name GENERIC_PING > alias GENERIC_PING > } > > So is this a different problem then what you were looking at maybe ? > Yes. That's not just an empty hostgroup, but an empty hostgroup to which services are assigned. That's supposed to be an error. What's the reason for using empty hostgroups to assign services to? -- Andreas Ericsson [email protected] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
