Selecting hosts in both hostgroups (union problem).

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Mon Oct 31 15:45:34 CET 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Steve Shipway
> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:53 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Selecting hosts in both hostgroups (union
> problem).
> 
> >> 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?
> >
> >Not without patching the cgi's, no.
> 
> I'm very tempted to do this, since invisible hostgroups would be very,
> very
> useful.  When we finally upgrade to the next version of Nagios, maybe
> we'll
> have this feature...?

I don't know if this will satisfy your goals but if you have
authentication enabled you can just give the hostgroup a contact_group
that doesn't contain any of your login contacts. Since nagios will only
show hosts and services (and hostgroups) that contacts are authorized
for, no one will see it.

--
Marc


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