# Nagios module -- servicegroup\_host

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/nagios-module-servicegroup-host/26470>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 12, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nagios-module-servicegroup-host/26470 "2018-01-12T15:43:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![erichymowitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9d8465/32.png) [@erichymowitz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/erichymowitz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nagios-module-servicegroup-host/26470/1 "2018-01-12T15:43:16Z")

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Greetings. New ansible user.

Can somebody verify my understanding of the nagios module and the servicegroup\_host\_downtime action?

Do I understand correctly that it affects all of the hosts contained in a service group? It seems a little odd to me, because a service group normally contains a single service over a broad variety of hosts – sometimes even all of them. So it seems weird that a command designed to act on a group of hosts would not act on actual hostgroups. I guess the theory is that I can set up hostgroups in my ansible inventory. But it still seems odd.

Am I also correct that there is no “delete” option for the servicegroup\_host and servicegroup\_service downtimes? Granted, I normally just let my downtimes expire, but I do delete them sometimes.

Thanks. While the ansible docs are very broad in describing everything, they don’t often go into great depth about the format of some options or the results of some commands.

–EbH