you can refer to http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objecttricks.html
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Paul M. Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric B. wrote: >> My real problem I think is that I 'whittled' it down in the wrong way >> (thanks for the help, everyone). Below is what I was hoping to do, but >> realize that b/c I HAVE to define a host w/ the escalation, I have to >> retool how my monster config is done (which will really suck). Here's >> what I was hoping to accomplish: >> >> 1) Create a generic service template that all service checks inherit >> that adds them to the 'all-services' group. >> 2) Create escalation rules that apply to the 'all-services' group. >> >> This worked (basically a more complicated example of the config I gave) >> until I added a 'all-services-foo' group (same method mentioned in #1 >> and #2) with different escalations. >> >> From a design perspective, I know Nagios does a great job w/ >> templating, and object inheritance, but it really sucks that I have to >> specify a host; that just increased the amount of objects easily by an >> order or so of magnitude. >> > > I don't see why. All services have to be assigned to hosts anyway. You can > specify a comma separated list of hosts in your escalation or use hostgroups. > I think you only need 2 additional objects to do what you want: A hostgroup > that consists of all hosts with services assigned and a host template to > assign hosts to that group. There's an example that might help here: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27615125 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ 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
