Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios implied and additive inheritance
Thanks for the workarounds.
I'm still not sure if this is a bug or if this is the way it's intended to work,
so I will repost on the nagios-dev list.
-- Jim
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:04:00 -0500 Jim Winkle jwin...@doit.wisc.edu wrote
I'd like to set up Nagios so that:
1) In general, contact_groups for a host are notified about problems with the
host and any service on the host.
2) Occasionally, we'd like other contact_groups to be notified about problems
with certain services on the host.
If I'm understanding the documentation at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objectinheritance.html
correctly, it indicates that #1 can be done using implied inheritance and #2
by using additive inheritance, but it's not working as expected. I've found
other posts from people with the same issue, but never any resolution.
For example, if I define:
define host{
host_name linux-server
contact_groups linux-admins
...
}
define service{
host_name linux-server
service_description l_proc_sshd
contact_groups +management
...
}
I would like this to be equivalent to:
define service{
host_name linux-server
service_description l_proc_sshd
contact_groups linux-admins,management
...
}
But instead, the implied inheritance of linux-admins is ignored, and it's
equivalent to:
define service{
host_name linux-server
service_description l_proc_sshd
contact_groups management
...
}
So contact_groups is overwritten rather than added to. No warnings/errors
were generated about the plus sign being used inappropriately or anything
else.
Am I misunderstanding the documentation? Is this possibly a bug?
If this is not the way it's intended to work, could Nagios be easily enhanced
to support this? It seems very logical and powerful, and apparently other
people are thinking along the same lines as I am. I'm not using escalations,
but a cursory read makes it appear to be supported there.
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this!
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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios implied and additive inheritance
On 3/26/2012 1:11 PM, Chris Beattie wrote:
I couldn't get it to work that way, either. Instead, I defined a
service escalation that activates on the first notification. Something
like this might work:
define serviceescalation {
host_name linux-server
service_description 1_proc_sshd
contact_groups management
first_notification 1
last_notification 0
escalation_options w,c,r
}
I assign services to hosts with hostgroups, so I have a hostgroup_name
in my escalation definition instead of just a host_name.
We do something similar, but recently found that
'first_notification_delay' on hosts and services is not honored when you
handle notifications this way. Really doesn't seem like it makes sense,
so I imagine it is just a bug. Worked around it by having a null target
for the first escalation.
Mark
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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios implied and additive inheritance
On 3/26/2012 2:04 PM, Jim Winkle wrote:
I'd like to set up Nagios so that:
1) In general, contact_groups for a host are notified about problems with the
host and any service on the host.
2) Occasionally, we'd like other contact_groups to be notified about problems
with certain services on the host.
Am I misunderstanding the documentation? Is this possibly a bug?
I couldn't get it to work that way, either. Instead, I defined a
service escalation that activates on the first notification. Something
like this might work:
define serviceescalation {
host_name linux-server
service_description 1_proc_sshd
contact_groups management
first_notification 1
last_notification 0
escalation_options w,c,r
}
I assign services to hosts with hostgroups, so I have a hostgroup_name
in my escalation definition instead of just a host_name.
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