Hostgroups for convenience, not display?

[Marc Powell]

Yep. The most straightforward approach (if you're using cgi
authentication) is just set the contactgroup for the hostgroup to
something that has a null contact or a contact that no one ever logs in
as (like nobody). 

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Madea [mailto:J.Madea at mdl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:26 PM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> 
> 
> Is it possible to define a hostgroup which is not displayed on the
status
> pages?
> 
> Maybe I'm just approaching it wrong. I'd like to display hostgroups
for
> each
> of our networks in different geographical locations such as Japan,
> Germany,
> and the UK. I'd also like to have a hostgroup containing just our vpn
> servers so I can use it in a service definition but I don't want to
> display
> it because it would just duplicate information in the other hostgroups
> anyway.
> 
> How is that best done?
> 
> -j
> 
> --
> Jeremy Madea
> Senior Systems Engineer
> MDL Information Systems
> 
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