Grouping of services

rafaelbarbosa · November 6, 2009, 6:33pm

I have a question/doubt: Can i create on nagios config files, a “group of
services” where i just need to associate “A group of Services” to "A group of Hosts"
Example:

hostgroup_example

host1
host2
host3

servicesgroup_example

Ping
Check_mem
Check_disc
Check_cpu

When i make an “servicegroup” i need to associate with this sintax

HOST1,Ping,HOST2,Ping,HOST3,Ping

Could i just make some like this?

sercvicesgroup_example #That includes ALL the services described above
members hostgroup_example #That includes ALL hosts defined above

…with no need of “host,service,host,service…” thing

tanks!

luca · November 11, 2009, 3:05pm

nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ … ricks.html

All Hosts In Multiple Hostgroups:
If you want to create identical services that are assigned to all hosts in one or more hostgroups, you can do so by creating a single service definition. How? The hostgroup_name directive allows you to specify the name of one or more hostgroups that the service should be created for. The definition below would create a service called SOMESERVICE on all hosts that are members of hostgroups HOSTGROUP1 through HOSTGROUPN. All the instances of the SOMESERVICE service would be identical (i.e. have the same check command, max check attempts, notification period, etc.).
define service{

	hostgroup_name		HOSTGROUP1,HOSTGROUP2,...,HOSTGROUPN

	service_description	SOMESERVICE

	other service directives ...

	}