hostgroups causing hairloss

[DAve]

Martin Melin wrote:
> Something that immediately comes to mind:
> 
> What are your regex_matching settings? use_regex_matching and 
> use_true_regex_matching

Ahhh! You are correct sir, thank you. I totally and completely missed 
that new feature.

Thank you.

DAve
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com 
> <mailto:dave.list at pixelhammer.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I am at a point that I am looking for gremlins, no other cause can
>     be found.
> 
>     I am replacing a very old Nagios install with Nagios 3.0.6, no
>     importing, a fresh install, new hardware, a network audit and entering
>     all hosts and services manually. It seems that no matter what I do I
>     keep getting some hosts added to a host group, even though I clearly did
>     not define them as part of the host group.
> 
>     My hostgroups.cfg,
>     ###############################################################################
>     define hostgroup {
>             hostgroup_name  AUTH_DNS
>             alias           Authoritative DNS
>             members         CDC-Ns1auth,CDC-NSMS,IDC-Ns2auth,SDC-Ns3auth
>             }
> 
>     define hostgroup {
>             hostgroup_name  CACHE_DNS
>             alias           Caching DNS
>             members         CDC-Dnscache,CDC-Ns1,IDC-Ns2,SDC-Ns3
>             }
> 
>     My hosts/CDC-Ns1auth.cfg,
>     ###############################################################################
>     define host {
>             host_name                       CDC-Ns1auth
>             alias                           ns1auth.tls.net
>     <http://ns1auth.tls.net>
>             display_name                    TLS DNS server
>             address                         65.124.104.30
>             parents                         null
>             hostgroups                      null
>             check_command                   check-host-alive
>             use                             generic-host
>             initial_state                   o
>             max_check_attempts              3
>             check_interval                  15
>             retry_interval                  1
>             check_period                    24x7
>             process_perf_data               1
>             retain_status_information       1
>             contact_groups                  host-oncall
>             notification_interval           15
>             notification_period             24x7
>             notification_options            d,u,r
>             register                        1
>             }
> 
>     Everything looks fine, but when I start Nagios and look at View
>     Config->Object Type->Host Groups, I see this!
> 
>     Group Name      Description             Host Members
>     CACHE_DNS       Caching DNS service     CDC-Dnscache , CDC-Ns1 ,
>     CDC-Ns1auth ,
>     IDC-Ns2 , IDC-Ns2auth , SDC-Ns3 , SDC-Ns3auth
> 
>     The CACHE_DNS host group should only contain CDC-Ns1, IDC-Ns2, and
>     SDC-Ns3. Why are the other hosts in there? I have tried renaming, I have
>     tried starting fresh with new config files, new retention data, new
>     object cache. Yet the hostgroup CACHE_DNS still contains hosts I did not
>     define to be there.
> 
>     Any help is appreciated, clues, clue bats, links, (yes I looked at the
>     change log and searched for an answer, no luck).
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     DAve
> 
> 
>     --
>     "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to
>     preserve your freedom.  I hope you will make good use of it.  If you
>     do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to
>     preserve it." John Quincy Adams
> 
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-- 
"Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to
preserve your freedom.  I hope you will make good use of it.  If you
do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to
preserve it." John Quincy Adams

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