hostgroup.cfg file

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ed.StJohn at wic-us.com wrote:
> I am running the sanity check after installing Nagios. I seem to be stuck on
> my hostgroups.cfg file. I am getting an error message that says "could not
> expand member hosts specifed in hostgroup ( config file yada yada yada line
> 21)
> 
> My hostgroup.cfg file looks like this....
> 
> define hostgroup{
> 
> hostgroup_name            nt-servers
> 
> alias                             NT Servers
> 
> contact_groups              nt-admins
> 
> members                       WUSNE227,WUSNE187, etc,etc
> 
> }
> 
>  
> 
> I have edited my /etc/hosts file with all of the server names and IP address
> and I can ping them all by name.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
Probably identical spelling. Check it over a couple of times (or better 
still, have a script check it for you, so you KNOW it's not because of 
spelling issues).
Try this, for instance (without any linebreaks);

for host in `sed 's/^ *//' hostgroups.cfg | grep ^members | gawk '{ 
print $2 }' | sed 's/,/ /g'` ; do grep hostname hosts.cfg | gawk '{ 
print $2 }' | grep -q $host || echo "$host not mentioned in hosts.cfg" ; 
done

Two things worth remembering;
All variables are case sensitive.
Spaces are NOT allowed in commaseparated lists.

>  
> 
> Thank you for the help!
> 
You're welcome.

>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ed St.John
> 

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andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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