System Monitoring with OpenBSD - PhxBUG

Nagios - Defining a Host object


define host {
        use                     generic-host
        host_name               canyon      
        alias                   department ftp server
        address                 canyon.la.asu.edu    
        hostgroups              dept_ftpservers,dept_sshservers,glgtso,psf616
        max_check_attempts      4  
        notification_interval   120 
        notification_period     24x7 
        notification_options    d,u,r 
        contact_groups          glgtso
        }

Most of that should be pretty self-explanatory, but I will explain it anyways =)

similarly, you can define host groups, which is an efficient way to group like host objects

define hostgroup{
        hostgroup_name  dept_sshservers
        alias           servers running SSH and managed by GLG TSO
        }