controlling services by hostgroup?

[Jonathan Mills]

I'm looking for some sanity checking of my logic here.

What I've been doing is controlling services by mapping them to  
hostgroups.  So, basically, I have a hostgroup for each type of  
service check, except for some basic checks that I lump together.

Why?  Because it makes it extremely easy to manage hosts.  I create a  
host definition in a new file, i list all the hostgroups to which the  
host belongs, and the host then inherits all the service checks it  
needs.  Adding and deleting hosts means only touching one file, the  
file containing the host definition.

In practice it works great, but it has some real annoyances too.  For  
example, my hostgroups look like servicegroups!  It confuses people.   
I also have way more hostgroups than is desirable to be displayed in  
the web interface.  And trying to map the logical groups or  
environments in my company is right out the window, since the  
hostgroups don't represent a logical or conceptual view of the  
environments within the company.

What are other people doing?  One thing I thought of that would help  
is if you could choose what hostgroups were actually displayed in the  
web interface.  That way I could have logical groups based on  
departments or something shown as hostgroups, while service-specific  
hostgroups weren't displayed.

Any comments would be greatly appraciated.

Cheers!
Jonathan

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