hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 11/02/2010 03:16 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> Basically because all the backend files are controlled via puppet, to a
> number of nagios servers, but the actual host assignments are controlled
> by third-party package.  So, the "base" configs about all the services
> are pushed to every server, and then the other tool determines the best
> "balance" of devices per nagios server.  If that makes sense.  So
> instead of maintaining service and hostgroup configs constantly across
> all the servers, I can push out one set of configs, and if there's a
> host pushed to that server which needs those configs, they are there and
> ready to go.
> 
> That help?
> 

Yup. Fixing Nagios to handle this is a bit off my todo-list right now
though, but as an autofix, have the init-script run a repair-script to
sed out the offending services or hostgroups on the offending systems.
I'd let Nagios do the heavy lifting if I was you and just surround
each hostgroup with

##HGBEGIN_lalala
define hostgroup {
    hostgroup_name       lalala
}
##HGEND_lalala

to make sed'ing a bit easier.

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