<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7651.17"> <TITLE>RE : [Nagios-users] Sybase check on windows servers</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hello Lalita, > >This means I will have to pass that particular service name individually >to check_nt. You can use Nagios macros for this. Use $HOSTNAME$ to get the name of the service's associated host. For this to work, you have of course to name your host with their hostname. >Is there any way to resolve this so that I can just mention the >hostgroup name and need not write separate checks. You may have to define a command to use this macro, like the following : define command { command_name check_sybase command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -v SERVICESTATE -d SHOWALL -l STBSQL_$HOSTNAME$ } and use this command in your service definition. Hope it will help, Florent </BODY> </HTML>