Newbie question..services and hostgroups

[Jason Martin]

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You want to use the hostgroup_name directive in the service definition 
instead of the host_name. This is documented at 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templatetricks.html#service

- -Jason Martin


On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Steve Gilbert wrote:

> 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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