cross products: host/host group x service/service group ..?

[Jan Grant]

By-and-large, I generate my nagios configs mechanically from the same 
config that drives app deployment. However, I've just had cause to write 
some config by hand and the following occurred to me:

I've got several hostgroups, and several service groups. What I'd really 
find convenient is a way to say

	all these services are running on all these hosts

and generate service instances for the product of those two sets. (The 
hosts are part of a farm.)

It's obviously possible to get a lot of the way using service templates, 
but as far as I can tell I still have to write a service definition per 
(host, service template) pair.

I'm aware that there may be design issues I've missed - naming 
considerations or suchlike. I think it'd be desirable to be able to 
specify groups of hosts and groups of service templates and (with a 
small number of additional declarations) create service instances. So 
(a) am I just being dumb and missing an already-extant capability; (b) 
is there a fundamental reason why this doesn't fit in nagios' design; 
(c) is the typical thing in this situation to do what I already do and 
generate the configs mechanically?

Cheers,
jan

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