need expert advice/suggestions

[Taylor Dondich]

Yes, I I consider that a workaround, as many people have hostgroups just 
for this purpose, where I see hostgroups as more of a grouping of 
devices for visibility sake.

So both are solutions, but I think assigning services (checks) directly 
to a host template is a stronger solution, as it may not clutter up your 
management UI with potentially strange hostgroup names.

Taylor

patrick.morris at hp.com wrote:
> Hi Taylor!
>
> On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Taylor Dondich wrote:
>
>   
>> I hate to toot our own horn here in the Nagios Users mailing list (not 
>> the reason why I joined it).  However, our configuration tool really 
>> does support what you are trying to do.  Lilac Configurator has support 
>> for templates, but we take it one step further.  Unlike Nagios, we 
>> support attaching services to host templates.  So when you create a new 
>> host and have it inherit from a template, it brings in all services 
>> attached to that template.  We do the same for escalations and 
>> depedencies.  Something we feel Nagios should have, but doesn't.  So our 
>> tool supports it then exports it to a configuration format that Nagios 
>> understands.  Give it a whirl, I think it may help out your 
>> configuration in the way you desire.
>>     
>
> For what it's worth, Nagios *does* support this.  We routinely use
> templates which assign a hostgroup to a host, and that hostgroup will
> have a set of standard check for that type of host assigned to it.  When
> a new host gets added, all it takes is a "use some_host_template" and
> all the standard services we run on that type of host just show up.
>   


-- 
Taylor Dondich (tdondich at lilacnetworks.com)
CEO at Lilac Networks (http://www.lilacnetworks.com)
Provider of quality support for open source monitoring solutions
View our open source Nagios Configuration Tool at http://www.lilacplatform.com


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