On 8/30/05, Chris Wilson <<a href="mailto:chris@aidworld.org">chris@aidworld.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi JB, > As Chris Wilson noted, hostgroups do the right thing in 1.2... but I > really have no idea how I'd make the right host entries for a series > of VirtualHosts. define service { use vhost-service service_description <a href="http://www.bar.com">www.bar.com</a> check_command my_check_http!www.bar.com hostgroup_name bar_com_servers } define command { command_name my_check_http command_line $USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -H $ARG1$ } This will call check_http with the host address (hostname) of each server in the group "bar_com_servers". I've used a template, vhost-service, to inherit the check interval and notification options (not shown here). > But if I'm trying to check the website "<a href="http://www.bar.com">www.bar.com</a>" on the host > "<a href="http://a.foo.com">a.foo.com</a>", the -u is not, as near as I can tell, optional, no? As long as <a href="http://www.bar.com">www.bar.com</a> actually has a "/" page (it doens't return an error or a redirect code). Hope this helps,</blockquote><div> It absolutely has. Thank you. (Especially: Thanks for prompting me to dig more into cfg recursion. I've been able to clean up things even more.) Now comes the final part of this particular task: I've been told to check '{machinename}.foo.com', but - according to docs/macros.html - I can't use $HOSTNAME$ or $HOSTALIAS$ in either host or service checks. My 1st instinct is to do just that - something like check_command check_lb_vhost!$HOSTNAME$.foo.com but it seems I can't. This is more than a bit annoying, and seems a very odd design decision. I can't be the only one who wants this functionality. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Cheers, Chris. -- (aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (<a href="mailto:chris@aidworld.org"> chris@aidworld.org</a>) </blockquote></div> Thanks again, JB