Bug in Nagios 2.6 regarding multiple hostgroups lines in services.cfg

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ian Forde wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
> I've noticed that you can have multiple "members" lines in the
> hostgroups.cfg hostgroup entries.  Unfortunately, while rewriting a
> fairly large Nagios configuration to support Distributed monitoring, I
> separated out our services.cfg lines to have multiple "hostgroups" lines
> for a given services.  This quite neatly broke the config, as it seems
> that it only reads the last hostgroups line listed for a given service.
> 
> Any chance of a fix?
> 


I'm not sure if this is a bug or by design. I believe "members" was 
treated specially because those lines tended to grow very, very large. 
Everywhere else the last specified option takes precedence.


define service{
	hostgroups	foo
	hostgroups	bar
}

will assign this service to hostgroup "bar" only.

define service{
	hostgroups	foo,bar
}

will assign this service to hostgroups "foo" and "bar".

Some fairly simple perl/python/php/ruby/manual hackery should work famously.

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