Hostgtroup question

[Morris, Patrick]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Mark Gius wrote:

> Morris, Patrick wrote:
> 
> Hi Dale!
> 
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Dale J. Chatham wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I don't seem to be able to do this:
> 
> # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs
> #
> #
> define hostgroup {
>      hostgroup_name                            all-hst
>      alias                                     all-hst
>      members                                   *
> }
> 
> # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs
> #
> #
> define hostgroup {
>      hostgroup_name                            basic_svc_snmp-svc
>      alias                                     basic_svc_snmp-svc
>      hostgroup_members                         all-hst,!basic_svc_ns-svc
> }
> 
> If it is not possible at this point, I'd like to suggest it as a
> somewhat obvious extension to hostgroup definitions.
> 
> 
> 
> It's not possible now -- members of hostgroups need to be hosts, and
> can't be other hostgroups.
> 
> 
> According to http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#hostgroup, you can have "sub" hostgroups.  So in theory he should be able to specify a hostgroup that contains every host, subtracting another group.

Well, I just learned something. That definitely isn't doable in Nagios
2.x (you didn't mention which version you were using, so I was going
based on what was in front of me at the time).

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