Hostgtroup question

[Mark Gius]

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.

-Gius
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