Mathieu Gagné a écrit : > 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?
Because the load service is defined for all my linux servers. If I remove sysadmin from the "load" service definition, I won't receive notifications for my proxy server, my backup server, etc... I hope I won't have to duplicate all of my common tests... Thanks, Ugo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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