Services on Host Templates

Jim Avery jim at jimavery.me.uk
Thu Aug 20 18:23:30 CEST 2009


2009/8/20 Christopher McAtackney <cristoir at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> If I create a host template, and associate a number of services with
> it, will hosts which inherit from that template also inherit the
> service associations?

No.  You can only associate actual hosts or hostgroups with a service.

I believe hostgroups are still the most efficient way to specify the
same service across a number of hosts.

> I've tried this out, but it doesn't seem to be working, and I'm
> wondering if there's something I'm missing.

No.  As far as I'm aware,
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html is still the
main advice for this kind of stuff.

Cheers,

Jim

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