<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.8"> </HEAD> <BODY> Howdy, all you need is this: hostgroup_name yourhstgroup instead of host_name yourhost and there you go Regards, Igor On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 01:35, Mark Arnold wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>Hi, I just installed Nagios for the first ime and I am impressed! But I am missing one thing: A service can be defined per host - the sample file shows about 20 or even more different hosts (servers, printers, routers, etc). Now for each of these hosts, there is the same ping service defined over and over again... This seems like a huge pain to maintain... Even if it is possible to use only one with a list of hostnames like hostname linux_box1,linuxbox2 (I dont know if this works or not) it would still be rather complex to maintain this for a big number of servers. Isn't it possible to use hostgroups instead? What else are the hostgroups for, if not for this? So there would be one ping service setup for hostgroup all_nodes and a hostgroup "all_nodes" would be configured accordingly. SMTP and POP could be configured for "all_mailservers", etc... I tried to just use a hostgroup name instead of the hostname, but Nagios didn't like that, it said the groupname was not a valid host name... Is there anything like this already there that I don't know of? Thanks, MARK ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. <A HREF="http://thinkgeek.com/sf">http://thinkgeek.com/sf</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE>-- ******************************** Igor Kurtovic Technische Systemlösungen QSC AG Phone: +49 221 6698 404 Mobile: +49 163 6698 075 Fax: +49 221 6698 469 WWW: www.q-dsl.de Email: igor.kurtovic@qsc.de ********************************</PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>