[op5-users] hosts but no services in Merlin/Ninja

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

I'm trying to play with Merlin 0.6.3beta (latest git I saw on the
website) and Ninja.  I had trouble when I started with a mult-host
configuration so I'm scaling back to the NOC+poller on a single host
configuration.  I've also scaled back a chunk of our real Nagios
configuration to run on this test box and put every host into a
hostgroup "merlin_a".

I have the following at the top of my merlin.conf:

		noc wonka {
		    address = x.x.x.x
		    port = 15551
		}

		poller wonka {
		    address = x.x.x.x
		    port = 15551
		    hostgroup = merlin_a
		}

When I start Nagios, I see the following in the neb.log:

		[1253148250] 6: Merlin Module Loaded
		[1253148251] 6: setting connect and disconnect handlers
		[1253148251] 6: Coredumps in /tmp
		[1253148251] 6: Merlin module v0.6.2 initialized
successfully
		[1253148251] 6: Object configuration parsed.
		[1253148251] 6: Creating hash tables
		[1253148251] 4: 'host1' is a member of 'merlin_a', so
can't add to poller for 'merlin_a'
		[1253148251] 4: 'host2' is a member of 'merlin_a', so
can't add to poller for 'merlin_a'
		... one of those for each host I have ...

What am I missing?  My service table in Nagios is empty.  When I run
Ninja, it tells me there are no services and while it shows the hosts,
it tells me that no services are scheduled to be checked.  If I look in
the CGI, it's running checks normally as I'd expect it to.

Thanks very much.

Mark