2.4 Grouping Computers Together with hostgroup
A host group contains one or more computers so that they can be represented in the Web interface together (see Figure 16-10 in page 334)—in addition, certain objects (e.g., services) can be applied to an entire group of computers instead of having to define them individually for each host.
The hostgroup_name parameter specifies a unique name for the group, alias accepts a short description. The members parameter lists all hosts names belonging to the group, separated by commas:
# -- /etc/nagios/mysite/hostgroups.cfg
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name linux-servers
alias Linux Servers
members linux01,linux02
hostgroup_members(*) hostgroup1,hostgroup2
}If you specify to which group they belong in the ...
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