Multiple hosts in services.cfg?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Sean Dilda wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 08:05, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>Ryan McCain wrote:
>>
>>>Can I put multiple hosts for the Hostname variable in services.cfg? 
>>>The reason I am looking to do this is because I have around 50 servers
>>>that I am looking to monitor the same port with?
>>>
>>
>>Yes. You can also have hostgroup_name in the service definition. They 
>>are not mutually exclusive.
>>
>>Remember that the list should be comma-separated and contain no spaces 
>>what so ever.
>>
>>In the future, you might want to test things like this first, since it's 
>>pretty easy to do and will keep some traffic off the list. nagios -v 
>>will tell you what you've done wrong, if anything, with some details.
> 
> 
> I think this is a fair question to put to the list considering its not
> mentioned anywhere in the documentation.  In fact, I've seen reference
> to this option, but always assumed it was a 2.0 feature since the docs
> that come with 1.2 make no reference to it all.
> 

What does it take to test? 5 seconds? Maybe 10 if you're a slow typer. I 
never said anything about it being mentioned in the documentation.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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