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Overview

When accessing the Hosts Configuration Page, an Host Table is displayed, listing all Hosts objects.

This table contains the following informations :

• A check box to select one or more checks
• Differences
• Name
• Apply on Hosts
• Apply on Host Groups
• Check Templates
• Status

This page also provides, on the left, an action Menu, used to :

• Add a new Check
• Show Checks detected by Automatic Modules
• Accept differencies on selected elements

On the top of the table, A tool bar let Administrators the ability to :

• Enable, Disable, Delete or Duplicate selected Checks
• Filter list by Name
• Filter list by Template applied on Checks
• Filter list by pack

Generic

Generic properties contains the minimum properties requiered to create an Host :

• Name
  

  • the name of the Check

  • this field is requiered

• Host Templates to inherit
  • list of templates the new host should herit to
  • templates name are suggested when starting to fill the field
• Apply on Host Groups
  
  • a list of available Hostgroups the check should be applyed
  • more than one Hostgroups can be selected

• Apply on Hosts
  
  • a list of available Hosts the new check should be applyed
  • more than one hosts can be selected
• Aggreagation
  • Path (/ seperated) to place the Check in a tree on the Visualization Interface
• Enabled
  • this property determines if the check will be used or not by Shinken
  • a disabled check is still present in configuration, but is not scheduled,
    is not applyed on hosts and is not visible on the WebUI
  • by default, value of Check Template is used