Can you define an empty hostgroup?

[Samuel P Howard]

Hi.

Sounds like an odd question, but can you define an empty hostgroup?

Here's why.

Trying to follow one of the ideas in the "Time Saving Tricks" page of 
the docs, I am adding each host to the hostgroup in the "host" 
definition ... this makes it a lot easier for me to automate the 
creating of new hosts ... problem is, if I don't pre-define the 
hostgroup, it doesn't pass the pre-flight check.

If I do try to define the hostgroup, I need to give it a hostname, which 
I don't have because it will depend on which hosts are already defined 
(and thus adding themselves to the hostgroup).

The only work around I've found is to put one host in the hostgroup as 
an anchor, but if that host ever gets removed from the monitoring, the 
pre-flight check will fail and the system won't reload the config (and 
the customers will be very confused why their changes aren't working 
anymore).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sam

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