problem with new installation: "Could not expand member hosts..."

[Greg Vickers]

alias != name

The 'name' directive is what has to be unique, the 'alias' directive is 
a meaningless (well, it can be) string.
e.g.
name erica
alias Erica is a fat server

Looks like your script is writing alias to name and vice versa.

My other thought is why are you using Nagios 1.x? Sure Nagios 2.0 is 
beta but damn it has a lot of advantages over 1.x... (faster, better 
reporting, etc etc)

HTH,
Greg

Aaron Macks wrote:
> I've noticed several records of similar problems in the archive, but no 
> concrete answers.  I'm upgrading fron netsaint 0.0.7 (yes I know) to 
> Nagios 1.2 with some scripts to translate the config file, but I'm 
> getting the following error:
> Error: Could not find host 'erica'
> Error: Could not expand member hosts specified in hostgroup (config file 
> '/apps/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg', line 97)
> 
> Here is the hostgroup definition(and the previous):
> define hostgroup{
>         hostgroup_name  mci.crosscheck
>         alias           mci.crosscheck
>         contact_groups  oncall,sysadmins
>         members         otto
> }
> define hostgroup {
>         hostgroup_name  eng.jboss
>         alias           eng.jboss
>         contact_groups  oncall,sysadmins
>         members         erica,mario
> }
> 
> and here is the host definition(and the previous):
> define host {
>         use                     generic-host
>         name                    otto.xxx.com
>         alias                   otto
>         address                 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>         check_command           check-host-alive
>         max_check_attempts      5
>         notification_interval   60
>         notification_period     24x7
>         notification_options    r,d,u
> }
> define host {
>         use                     generic-host
>         name                    erica.xxx.com
>         alias                   erica
>         address                 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>         check_command           check-host-alive
>         max_check_attempts      5
>         notification_interval   60
>         notification_period     24x7
>         notification_options    r,d,u
> }
> 
> any thoughts?
> Aaron
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