defining a hostgroup

[Morris, Patrick]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Thomas Slutyer
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:14 AM
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net> 
> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] defining a hostgroup
> 
> >> I currently setup hostgroups.cfg in which I have the following:
> >>
> >> define hostgroup{
> >> hostgroup_name linux
> >> alias Linux
> >> }
> >>
> >> When I run the -v test to see if everything is alright 
> before turning 
> >> on Nagios, it throws the following error:
> >>
> >> Invalid object definition of type 'hostgroup'. Any idea 
> what I may be 
> >> doing wrong?
> 
> *cough*
> 
> The manual clearly states that the "members" field is a 
> requisite for a hostgroup definition. Even if it doesn't have 
> any members (just leave it blank).

This wasn't my question (my hostgroups work fine, thanks :) ), but the
manual's not 100% correct in this case.  A hostgroup does not need to
have members defined in the hostgroup definition; they work fine if
hosts are assigned to groups in the host definitions.

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