Hi, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Hi, > > We've been using nagios for a long while, but only needed one group. > However, we now want to add a "DBA" contact group, so that the database > administrators get notfications by e-mail if something goes wrong, but > only on database servers. > > I've created the contacts, the contactgroup (dbas), and added 'dbas' in > the host definitions of the database servers, but the dbas don't get any > notifications when there is a service problem with a DB server. I > looked at my services and all of them are configured with 'sysadmins' as > contact_groups. The problem is that many of my tests are done on many > servers, including DB and non-DB servers. For example, I check the load > average on all my servers, but I only want the DBAs to receive e-mails > when the load is too high on a database server, not on all. > > Running Nagios 2.12. Will consider upgrading to 3.x if needed.
Why don't you add the contactgroup "dbas" and remove "sysadmins" from the "load" service definition for all database servers? -- Mathieu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ 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
