Hostgroups and Services

[Russell Scibetti]

You have no notification_interval in the service definition.  Try adding 
it and see if it works.

Russell

Sean McAvoy wrote:

>Okay, here it is
>The error:
>Reading configuration data...
>
>Error: Invalid max_attempts, check_interval, retry_interval, or
>notification_interval value for service 'Dealer FTP service' on host
>'drive.wilmits'
>
>Error: Could not register service (config file
>'/etc/nagios/services-dealers.cfg', line 25)
>
>The config:
>
>define service{
>        name                            dealer-service
>        active_checks_enabled           1
>        passive_checks_enabled          1
>        parallelize_check               1
>        obsess_over_service             1
>        check_freshness                 0
>        notifications_enabled           1
>        event_handler_enabled           1
>        flap_detection_enabled          1
>        process_perf_data               1
>        retain_status_information       1
>        retain_nonstatus_information    1
>        max_check_attempts              3
>        normal_check_interval           3
>        retry_check_interval            2
>        contact_groups                  technical-support
>        check_period                    24x7
>        notification_period             24x7
>        notification_options            c,r,u ; test
>        register                        0
>        }
>
>define service{
>        use                             dealer-service
>        hostgroup_name                  testgroup
>        service_description             Dealer FTP service
>        check_command                   check_ftp
>        }
>
>and the hostgroup.cfg entry:
>define hostgroup{
>        hostgroup_name  testgroup
>        alias           This is a test group
>        contact_groups  technical-support
>        members         drive.wilmits,drive.jackmac
>        }
>
>Is that enough?
>
>On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:20, Russell Scibetti wrote:
>
>>Yes, you can use hostgroup_name instead of host_name (one or the other). 
>> Email out the entire definition that Nagios is reporting an error on. 
>> Maybe there's another error causing the problem.
>>
>>-Russell
>>
>>Sean McAvoy wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>Should I be able to embed hostgroup_name inside of a service (in place
>>>of host_name)?  I seem to be getting an error when I do this (Invalid
>>>max_attempts, check_interval, retry_interval, or
>>>notification_interval value for service 'service description' on
>>>'hostname').
>>>
>>>-Sean
>>>
>>-- 
>>Russell Scibetti
>>Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
>>http://www.quadrix.com
>>(732) 235-2335, ext. 7038
>>
>>
>>

-- 
Russell Scibetti
Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
http://www.quadrix.com
(732) 235-2335, ext. 7038





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