Newbie question..services and hostgroups

[Jamie Baddeley]

patience, young jedi....

use the force.

:-)

jamie

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 11:40, Steve Gilbert wrote:
> Oh thank God!  I was about 10 minutes away from throwing Nagios out and
> placing an order for whatever lame commercial package was out there.  Whew!
> 
> Don't know how I missed that page in docs.  Thanks to all who replied!
> 
> Steve Gilbert
> Unix Systems Administrator
> sgilbert at nvidia.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 2:37 PM
> To: Steve Gilbert; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups
> 
> 
> Found it, not in the FAQ, but in the regular documentation. It is a
> little hard to get to, so here's a direct link:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templatetricks.html
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> > Of Cook, Garry
> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:33 PM
> > To: Steve Gilbert; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups
> > 
> > 
> > I could swear that this was in the FAQ 
> > (http://www.nagios.org/faqs), but
> > I can't seem to find it right now. I'm sure someone will clue us in...
> > 
> > Yes, you can do exactly what you are asking for, apply a service check
> > to an entire hostgroup. In the service definition you'll need 
> > to change
> > the 'host_name' to 'hostgroup_name', then just follow it with a
> > hostgroup instead of a host. Also, should you ever want to apply a
> > service check to all hosts, you can simply use
> > 
> > host_name	* 
> > 
> > in the definition.
> > 
> > Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> > Network Infrastructure Manager
> > MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
> > 303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> > > Of Steve Gilbert
> > > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:22 PM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Newbie question..services and hostgroups
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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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