> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles O'Neal > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:06 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] not worth the upgrade after all > > Having to switch the contact groups into the > hosts file is, IMO, braindead. It may be > nice and consistent, but where is the win > for the existing user? It makes the files > more complex, not less. Having it as an > optoin there instead of hostgroups is one > thing, but at this point it looks to me like > a purely academic exercise, and one that > will waste a bunch of my time. > > If someone wants to explain *why* this is > a good thing *for the user*, I'm all ears.
It allows you to have different contacts per host, regardless of the hostgroups they are in. The converse is that you don't have to put a host in multiple hostgroups _just_ to have multiple independent contacts. This change allows for much greater flexibility for host-specific contacts. I personally consider consistency a win myself. I also never particularly liked that couldn't enable notifications, or even a different contact, for just one host in a hostgroup without jumping through hoops or creating a dedicated hostgroup. In the end, you don't *have* to upgrade if the change is so burdensome. That's one of the benefits of OSS. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null