Running Nagios 1.3

Background:
In an attempt to make it simple to add hosts/services to monitor to nagios, I've come up with a scheme where each host has a file in a configuration directory, and each file contains a list of all possible services (some commented out). That way, to add a new host, one simply needs to copy a template file to a file called <hostname>.cfg, uncomment
the services one wants monitored, and restart nagios.

Problem:
I want a specific escalation schedule for (all/most) of my services: first a mail is sent to a mailing list, and if the problem hasn't cleared after a specified time, the pagers of various people start getting notified (in a specific sequence).

At first it looked like I might be able to do that by putting all the servers into a hostgroup, and defining a short list of hostgroupescalation settings. However, after testing it appears that hostgroupescalation only works for HOST events, and not for SERVICE events. Looking at serviceescalation, it looks like I would have to enter the same list of serviceescalation commands for each [host,service] pair - which would make my configuration file much more
unwieldly.

So is there any way to define escalations for GROUPS of services? All services on one host (without having to enumerate them) would be good. All services on a hostgroup would be even better. Any way short of having to enumerate all the [host,service] pairs would be at least something. I'm open to ideas.

Best regards,
         Matija Grabnar


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