Nagios Services

[Martin Melin]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jeremy Gibbs <jlgibbs at utica.edu> wrote:
> Hi.
> This is a default check nagios has in it's config file for checking link
> status on a switch.
> define service{
>         use                           generic-service
>         host_name                DC-6509
>         service_description     Port 1 Link Status
>         check_command        check_snmp!-C onsite -o ifOperStatus.1 -r 1 -m
> RFC1213-MIB
>         }
>
> It works fine
>
> Where it says hostname, I would generally have to do this
>
>  host_name               DC-6509, Switch-1, Switch-2, Switch-3, Switch-4,
> switch-5
> Now, as you can imagine, if I have multiple services I want to monitor, I
> would rather have a group with all these hosts, Then I could do something
> like...
> hostgroups               switches
> Then I wouldn't have so much work to do.
> Is this passable?

hostgroup_name: 	This directive is used to specify the short name(s)
of the hostgroup(s)  that the service "runs" on or is associated with.
Multiple hostgroups should be separated by commas. The hostgroup_name
may be used instead of, or in addition to, the host_name directive.

Source: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service

Regards
Martin Melin

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