Yes, I I consider that a workaround, as many people have hostgroups just for this purpose, where I see hostgroups as more of a grouping of devices for visibility sake.
So both are solutions, but I think assigning services (checks) directly to a host template is a stronger solution, as it may not clutter up your management UI with potentially strange hostgroup names. Taylor patrick.mor...@hp.com wrote: > Hi Taylor! > > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Taylor Dondich wrote: > > >> I hate to toot our own horn here in the Nagios Users mailing list (not >> the reason why I joined it). However, our configuration tool really >> does support what you are trying to do. Lilac Configurator has support >> for templates, but we take it one step further. Unlike Nagios, we >> support attaching services to host templates. So when you create a new >> host and have it inherit from a template, it brings in all services >> attached to that template. We do the same for escalations and >> depedencies. Something we feel Nagios should have, but doesn't. So our >> tool supports it then exports it to a configuration format that Nagios >> understands. Give it a whirl, I think it may help out your >> configuration in the way you desire. >> > > For what it's worth, Nagios *does* support this. We routinely use > templates which assign a hostgroup to a host, and that hostgroup will > have a set of standard check for that type of host assigned to it. When > a new host gets added, all it takes is a "use some_host_template" and > all the standard services we run on that type of host just show up. > -- Taylor Dondich (tdond...@lilacnetworks.com) CEO at Lilac Networks (http://www.lilacnetworks.com) Provider of quality support for open source monitoring solutions View our open source Nagios Configuration Tool at http://www.lilacplatform.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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