Re: [Nagios-users] Service escalations without contacts or groups defined on the services themselves
Kevin Kenny wrote: I find this a convenient configuration because it means I don't have to explicitly define contacts or contact groups at either the service template or service check itself and makes management somewhat simpler. Well, that's one way to do it, but... Despite the warnings, and even though this configuration works just fine, is it recommended? ...I can't recommend it, personally. It may work for you now, but it won't scale up. I have over a thousand hosts and ten thousand services. My preflight check has to be clean, or I would miss one new configuration warning as ten thousand preventable warnings scrolled past. -- -Chris -- Nothing in this message is intended to make or accept an offer or to form a contract, except that an attachment that is an image of a contract bearing the signature of an officer of our company may be or become a contract. This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may constitute as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, we hereby notify you that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and delete this message immediately. Thank you. -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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
[Nagios-users] Service escalations without contacts or groups defined on the services themselves
All of my service checks are based on templates where notifications are
enabled, the notification period set to 24x7, notification type is set to
U,C etc. But there are no contacts or contact groups associated in the
service check templates.
When I add a new service check, the check is always based on one of these
templates. However I *still don't* add any contacts or groups to the actual
checks themselves.
The service checks all get added to to a service group called
Critical-Services.
I also have a number of users who are members of a contact group called
Duty-Admin-Pagers.
I have a service escalation configured with a linked contact group of
Duty-Admin-Pagers (above) and with a servicegroup_name of Critical-Services,
it looks like this:
define serviceescalation{
servicegroup_name Critical-Services
contact_groups Duty-Admin
contacts
first_notification 1
last_notification 999
notification_interval 1
escalation_period 24x7
escalation_options u,c
}
Whenever a service goes CRITICAL HARD and exceeds the number of retries I
get pager alerts fired off just as I expect.
However when I load this configuration into Nagios I get warnings such as:
Warning Service 'APC-Power-Output' on host 'APC-PDU-0299' has no default
contacts or contactgroups defined!
The escalation and notifications still work and still send notifications to
the contact_group Duty-Admin defined in the service escalation.
I find this a convenient configuration because it means I don't have to
explicitly define contacts or contact groups at either the service template
or service check itself and makes management somewhat simpler.
Despite the warnings, and even though this configuration works just fine, is
it recommended?
Thanks
Kevin
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