It looks like the answer is no, but I'm going to try anyway. I've tested it and it doesn't appear to work, but maybe I'm doing it wrong.

I have a large number of hosts to monitor. Is there a way to nest the tags for the hosts into a list of hosts to include into the hosts.cfg file?

For Example: If I have a: group-only test1|test2|test3 host1 # test1 test2 test3 host2 # test1 test2 test3 host3 # test1 test2 test3

Is there a way I could do something along the lines of: having a file - tests.dat test1 test2 test3

and including it into a file hosts.dat host1 # include tests.dat host2 # include tests.dat host3 # include tests.dat

and then putting in into the hosts.cfg file

group-old test1|test2|test3 include hosts.dat

Thank you.

-- Michael Beatty