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<font style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"> <div>I'm not sure I
should say sorry for the basic questions as this is what the group is for,
but seeing some of the in depth questions... talk about an inferiority
complex. Well, I now can see how to debug the start (thanks
Marc) and figured my one problem. But back to a basic few
things. I am looking to have nagios monitor 40 or so servers. 10
or so webservers, a few database, all have ssh, etc. so as I am trying to
lay this out in my head, for an example, is this the right thinking. </div>
<div> </div> <div>Each box has an unique name in a server folder,
/server/servername.cfg (that is what I have started and kind of
working). </div> <div>The webservers will have the following; </div> <div>
the define host { </div> <div>host_name </div> <div>address </div>
<div>use (I think this is my problem) </div> <div>} <br /> </div> <div>
</div> <div>Now the above, the use I think is the actual hostgroup I
wish it to belong to (ex, webserver, linux-server, etc.) I am thinking
I will have group temapltes, webserver will have an http test, linux-server
can have an ssh check, load, users, etc. Now if the above is making sense,
the use will have multiple, ex, </div> <div>use webserver,
linux-server (I assume this is possible) That would
take care of defining the default services to check for those particular
box's. </div> <div> </div> <div>I guess I am looking for both
confirmation and suggestions on some high level down setups. I don't
want each host having 10 define_service items. I would rather say he
is a webserver, and linux box. That by nature will check x, y and z.
The problem so far is I have 4 servers, and even though I have an
address in each, the use is still the default so ALL the box's details,
users, swap usage, etc. is referenceing the localhost and not that
individual box. </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div> <div>That is where I am
stuck, the doc's are really not to helpful, but I am trying to understand
more the seperate files. How the use works, when to use a hostgroup,
etc. I will gladly provide cfg files or if someone has some basic
things (aside from the install templates) or some help on the above it's
appreciated. </div> <div> </div> <div>Lr </div> </div>
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