Selecting hosts in both hostgroups (union problem).

[John P. Rouillard]

Hello all:

I am using nagios2.0b4 and have a problem where I need to run a
service check on only hosts that are common to two hostgroups.

    E.G. http_servers & dont_page_for_these_hosts

I looking through the code, I didn't see anything similar to

  hostgroup_names    hostgroup1,&hostgroup2

to make a union of the two hostgroup sets so I figured I could do:

   hostgroup1, !(hostgroup of all hosts except the hosts in hostgroup2)

However how do I create the second group?

Sadly something like:

  define hostgroup{
      hostgroup_name 	and_hostgroup2
      members 		*	  
      hostgroup_members !hostgroup2
  }

doesn't work. So does anybody have any bright ideas? I may have 30 or
40 services defined this way, and it would be much nicer and less
error prone to define one hostgroup as a mask rather than define 40
hostgroups one for each service pairing.

Also is there a way to create an "invisible" hostgroup that won't show
up in the web interface, but works in the configuration files?

Thanks for your help.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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