Best way to build this config?

[Hicks, Matthew]

I'm running Nagios 2.0a.

I have a service I want to add to/run on a hostgroup.  The command for the service includes one parameter, tcp port, that is variable across hosts.  

Is there some way to be smart and configure this check for all hosts in a hostgroup?  (That is, without having to create a separate service entry with the correct parameter for each host?)

For instance, I would like to be able to do something clever in the config... A kind of $USERn$ macro, but for hosts, like so:


define host {
	host_name	prodserv
	address	10.10.10.10
	HOST1		9999
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      ...
}

Define hostgroup { ... }

define service {
	check_command	tcp_port!$HOST1$
      hostgroup_name    many_servers
	...
}


TIA,
Matt


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