[Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
I am working on setting up Nagios for the first time and am trying to search different forums to find my answers, but it appears forums.meulie.net has been down for several days (or I can't seem to get there from my network) and SF is giving me Search Server timeout errors when I try and search

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
Think I've gotten to the root of my rookie issue. Using # instead of ; inside a definition for commenting. In addition to realizing the cfg_dir definition in the nagios.cfg is recursive and I didn't need to define each directory under the base directory it was pointing to. Still interested

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
Think I've gotten to the root of my rookie issue. Using # instead of ; inside a definition for commenting. In addition to realizing the cfg_dir definition in the nagios.cfg is recursive and I didn't need to define each directory under the base directory it was pointing to. Still interested

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Beattie
Ken Netzorg wrote: Having read the documentation and doing some pondering, I am looking to break my service monitoring into two notification trees: Production and Development. That way, I am not bothered by development services alerting off hours and only get production notifications off

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
Chris, Thanks for the detailed info. I had gone through the inheritance documentation you'd listed below, but I didn't put the facts together that I can mix my host template with my service template such that I can have a host's notification settings apply to a service. I had been trying to figure