Re: [Nagios-users] Struggling with Service Definitions without Hostgroups

[Lars Stavholm]

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: .

/L

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Re: [Nagios-users] Struggling with Service Definitions without Hostgroups

[Brian E. Seppanen]

I think my problem was trying to use an older 1.x configuration file with 
2.x.  I still have the hostgroup definitions and my sytanx check is coming 
up clean.


This is what I was getting with the 1.x nagios.cfg.
Nagios 2.8
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 03-08-2007
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...


***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config 
files...

  Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
  directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a previous
  version of Nagios, you should be aware that some 
variables/definitions
  may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to read
  the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
  'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.



the best way to solve a problem is to post something to a public list that 
makes you look like an idiot...   you're guaranteed to solve the problem 
shortly after posting

thanks,

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[Nagios-users] Struggling with Service Definitions without Hostgroups

[Brian E. Seppanen]

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.

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