Could not expand hostgroups error

[Chris Weiss]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Morris, Patrick <patrick.morris at hp.com> wrote:
> Chris Weiss wrote:
>>
>> When I run nagios -v with cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/twiki.cfg
>> present, it complains:
>> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service
>> (config file '/etc/nagios/objects/twiki.cfg', starting on line 24)
>>   Error processing object config files!
>>
>> I'm stumped as to why it cannot expand the hostname. It's defined in
>> the same file and nowhere else. The only other place "twiki-servers"
>> is referenced is in one of the other host files in conf.d
>>
>
> That's precisely the reason for the error. You're assigning a service to a
> hostgroup you have not defined.
>

Patrick - I'm defining the hostgroup immediately above the service
definition in that file. I could see where that might not be
supported, but I do the same thing with my exchange.cfg file (and all
the others) and that seems to work fine.

Matt - I do have one host that references those hostgroups. Thanks for
the link! I'd run across (and bookmarked) it before when I was hunting
for ways to optimize Nagios configs.


-- 
-Chris

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