Can you define an empty hostgroup?

[Jee Kay]

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On 18/08/06, Samuel P Howard <nagios at gmxtechnologies.com> wrote:
> 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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