Template shortcut problem?

[Marc Powell]

On Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:44 PM, Cook, Garry shared with us:

> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > Hi all! I'm starting to play around with 2.0a and I have it working
> > so now I'm looking at doing some things with template-magic that I
> > probably should have done a long time ago. Unfortunately I'm doing
> > something wrong and could use another pair of eyes. I basically have
> > about 1600 hosts that I'm looking at for this that are split up into
> > 138 hostgroups with most hosts being in two different hostgroups.
> > I'm trying to use template magic to eliminate having to specify
> > each as an argument to the hostgroup 'members' directive by using
> > the 'hostgroups' directive in the
> > host definition and to simplify my configs like so --
> > 
> > # Host definition
> > define host {
> >         use                     generic-host
> >         host_name               <HOSTNAME REMOVED>
> >         alias                   Alcoa Elementary/LEA
> >         address                 <IP ADDRESS REMOVED>
> >         hostgroups              all-east-tn,tnops-alcoa-tn         }
> > 
> [snip]
> > Thanks!
> 
> In the host definition, try removing the 'host_name' line and
> changing the hostgroups line to 'hostgroup_name'. 

How then would I associate a service with a particular host? From my
experience, host_name is the single most important key that's used by
everything and can not be removed.

--
Marc


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