<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7654.12"> <TITLE>Assigning contacts to hosts confusion</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hi All, Can someone help me understand the best way to assign contacts to hosts en masse? In version 1.x, we would create a hostgroup put the hosts that we needed in it and then assign a contact group to that hostgroup, done deal. Now it appears that under Nagios 3 to accomplish the same thing I have to create the hostgroup as before and then go to each host and assign a contact or contact group to it. That's much more tedious than the old way, am I missing something? Please tell me there's an easier way that I'm overlooking. I found this in the what's new in Nagios 2 doc's (<A HREF="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/whatsnew.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/whatsnew.html</A>): Contact group changes - The contact_groups directive has been moved from hostgroup definitions to <A HREF="file://xodtemplate.html">host definitions</A>. This was done in order to maintain consistency with the way service contacts are specified. Make sure to update your config files! Thanks, -greg </BODY> </HTML>