ServiceGroup Best Practices Question

[steve f]

hello David,

Not saying its the best way but I have a separate file in my objects dir called servicegroup.cfg  where I set up as follows :

define servicegroup{

servicegroup_name       Legacy Checks
alias                   Store Legacy Checks
}

then in my services.cfg file, I have a line added as follows :

define service{
       use                             generic-service
       servicegroups                  Legacy Checks


I have multiple checks that I wanted to group together under a single service group heading.  This is the only (?) way I found to do it.  You can add the members ( hosts)  to the servicegroup file and the checks but I found this way to be easier.

if you create a separate file, dont forget to be sure its identified in your nagios .cfg file.

If anyone has a better way to do this,  would love to hear about it.  This way does work for my config.... your mileage may vary.....

Good Luck,

Steve

From: dlh at cayuga-cc.edu
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:25:32 -0500
Subject: [Nagios-users] ServiceGroup Best Practices Question



I’m new to Nagios.  Running Nagios 3.2.3. I want to start using Service Groups, but I’m not sure of the best place to put the service group definitions. What is making me question the location is eventually I will want to create a service group that contains services hosted on both Linux and Windows machines, so I’m thinking of creating a new config file to hold the service groups, then in nagios.cfg use cfg_file= to load it in after the Windows and Linux machines are loaded. Where do you create service groups?  
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