Brian E. Seppanen wrote: > I'm a long time netsaint/nagios user. At this time I'm still running 1.x > version 1.4.1. I'm trying to make the migration to nagios-2.8, but I'm > struggling with object definitions for services in 2.x. in 1.x I define > hostgroups with member hosts. In the service definition I tie the > hostgroup to the service. Easy binding of large numbers of hosts to a > single service, keeping the config sane. I have ten distributed nagios > hosts with several hundred hosts and thousands of service checks, so I > cannot believe that services need to be defined on an individual basis for > hosts, so I'm assuming that I'm missing something fundamental to 2.x. > > If I have 2500 current services, am I to understand that I > need to define 2500 different services? There has to be a short hand > method for this that I'm missing. Can someone point me to a best > practice that they've been able to implement in 2.x that will allow large > numbers of services to be defined in a minimally managed scenario. > > Any suggestions appreciated. thanks for your time.
Maybe: <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html>. /L ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null