Newbie question..services and hostgroups

[Steve Gilbert]

I'm setting up Nagios 1.1 for the first time, and I'm a little confused
about something.  I've got my hosts.cfg file done (~180 hosts) as well as my
hostgroups.cfg.  I'm starting to set up services.cfg now.  So...let's say I
want to monitor a process...let's say ypserv...on 20 machines.  Do I really
have to set up a separate service definition for each host?  20 different
definitions for my ypserv check?  Why can't I just say..."here's how to
check for ypserv, now go look for it on these 20 boxes..."  Seems like I
should just be able to give it a hostgroup, but the docs say that you must
define a specific host.

Once this Nagios is up and running, I'm going to set up another Nagios
server for our ~2600 node Linux farm...and I'd like to monitor several
services for each of those.  That's going to get real ugly real quick.  Am I
just missing something obvious?  Thanks.

Steve Gilbert
Unix Systems Administrator
sgilbert at nvidia.com


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