Working with [contact|host] groups and members

[Thomas Sluyter]

Hi all,

I've run into something that irks me, while working with contact and  
host groups. Something that I hope you guys will know a way around.

I'm running version 2.5 by the by.

Membership of these groups can be defined in two locations:
* In the definition of the member itself, eg the host or the contact.
* In the definition of the group, eg the host group or the contact  
group.

The documentation clearly states that you can use either one of these  
methodes to assign membership of a group. So why is it that Nagios - 
forces- you to at least have one member in the group definition?

In our case, I want to put -all- the group assignments in the member  
definitions (due to the subscription model I'm using for my service  
checks). I don't particularly feel like mucking about in the group  
config, when all I should be doing is editing the member definition.

With the contact groups, this isn't too big a deal. I've made a dummy  
account that is a member of each group, but who doesn't partake of  
any notifications. Fine. Dandy... It works, but it's a kludge.

Nasty thing though is that it's not that easy with host groups. Fine,  
I can make a dummy host that's a member of all of my host groups, but  
in our case that would "subscribe" the dummy to all of the service  
checks that I've defined. Not a fun thing, I assure you :)

So... Do you guys:
A) Know a way around the required "members" entry for both groups?  
Doing away with it completely?
B) Know of a neat trick to work around the required "members" for the  
host group definitions?

Cheers!


Thomas

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