Hello, 23.07.2008 11:20, Marc Torres wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm quite newbe to nagios, and I'm trying to configure notifications > for services according to host contacts. I mean, I would like to > configure contacts (or contact groups) only in the hosts definitions, > and then when a monitorized service at that host has a hard state > change, the notification gets send to the contact configured at the > host definition.
You could do this with custom variables. You set the data you need for the notifications in the host as, for example, _NOTIFICATIONMAIL and create a new notification script that uses this address (if defined) instead of the default supplied by the Nagios configuration. Arno > My problem is that I've got one hostgroup which has all hosts related > to it. The services are configured for that hostgroup (all the hosts > run the same services), this way I'm monitoring the same services in > all hosts. But according to [1], I've to configure a contact or a > contactgroup at least for the service, and here comes my problem. > > I would like not to share the same contacts for the same service in > the different hosts, I would like to configure different contacts for > the same service in different hosts. The contact should be the same > configured in the host definition, so my question is if its possible > to configure nagios to send service notification at destinations > configured at hosts definition instead of service definition. > > I've read almost all the docs from [2]. But I didn't found a easy way > to achieve it. The only solution that comes to my mind is to create a > template for each service and then create a service for each host that > inherits from the template and has the same contact of the host, but > this is hard to achieve as I may have hundreds of hosts. > > Cheers, > > Marc. > > [1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service > [2] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
