Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Creating a new servicegroup

In this recipe, we'll create a new servicegroup. This allows us to make meaningful groups out of a set of arbitrary services, so that we can view the status of all those services in a separate part of the web administration area.

Getting ready

You should have a working Nagios Core 3.0 or better server running, with web interface.

You should also have at least two services defined that form a meaningful group; perhaps they're similar kinds of services, such as mail services, or are monitored by the same team, or all on the same set of servers at a physical location.

In this example, we have three servers performing mail functions: smtp.naginet, pop3.naginet, and imap.naginet, running an SMTP, POP3, and IMAP daemon, respectively. ...