groups of hostgroups?

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

To answer your initial question, no, I don't believe the hostgroups-of-hostgroups feature exists.

To answer the actual problem you're trying to address, I'm attaching an e-mail which answers this.

HTH.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pascal Jermini [mailto:pascal at infinity.hn.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:56 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] groups of hostgroups?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if it was possible to do something like a group of
> hostgroups: we currently have a certain number of computers 
> attached to an
> array of servers, then we also have another batch of computers also
> attached to another array of servers. Repeat this a few times 
> and you have
> our current setup.
> 
> We started with the first group of machines/servers, and we assiged
> different hostgroups for the machines and for the servers. 
> Now if we move
> on and integrate the rest of our computing resources into 
> Nagios we face a
> big problem: when looking at the Services pages we have all 
> the servers
> and workstations all in one page. It would be nice to create 
> a group for
> each workstations/servers/"other services" pairs
> and have like a"tab" in the services page, each tab corresponding to a
> certain pair.
> 
> This also is interesting from the point of view of the system 
> managers:
> for each pair there's a sysadmin attached to it, and it's not 
> useful to
> him to know that there's a problem on a segment he doesn't administer.
> 
> Using multiple istances of Nagios is a no-go, since our 
> current goal is to
> centralize as much as possible all the monitoring...
> 
> I hope that my explanation/request are clear enough..
> 
> regards,
> 
> Pascal
> 
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