How to use host_groups in service definitions

nagios at mm.quex.org nagios at mm.quex.org
Sun Oct 24 06:36:21 CEST 2004


On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 06:18:56PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> 
> I have tried to find information on $subject elsewhere, but to no
> avail.
> 
> How can I use hostgroups inside service definitions? I am using Nagios
> 1.2 on a Debian/testing system. Currently I am specifying each host a
> service definition applies to on it's own, which gets awfully
> unreadable long lines and is ugly to maintain.
> 
> How can I use my host_group definitions here instead, like eg.
> gateways,servers-sometown,printers I tried several syntaxes but nagios
> -v was always bitching on me if I used host_group names instead of
> plain hosts.

define service {
 ...
 hostgroup_name       gateways,servers-sometown,printers
 ...
}


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