You're going to want to read this: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html, specifically "implied inheritance" about 3/4 of the way down.
Host and service inheritance is (mostly) separate. There are some implied inheritance rules however. For example, if a service doesn't define contact_groups anywhere, it will inherit contact_groups from its host. If you override contact_groups in the service somewhere, it will use that instead. You can add things using the "+" syntax (see additive inheritance), and you can kind of delete things with "!", but I've not played with that very much. -Gius Jason Frisvold wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings, > > I have a question about inheritance within a service/host. First, > these are completely separate, correct? ie, if I define a host with a > contactgroup of foo, the service does not use that contactgroup, but > rather uses the one defined by the service template, correct? Or does > it fall back to the host contact group if a service contact group is > undefined? > > Next, if I have an existing service/host template with a contactgroup > and I define a new service using that template, under what conditions is > that contactgroup superseded? If I define single contacts, will it > still use the contactgroup? How about if I specify a new contactgroup? > Can I add/delete contacts and contactgroups without specifying the > inherited ones? > > Thanks, > > - -- > - --------------------------- > Jason Frisvold > Network Engineer > frisv...@lafayette.edu > - --------------------------- > "What I cannot create, I do not understand" > - Richard Feynman > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpDofEACgkQO80o6DJ8Uvm2nACdFmFRNDxIXwRITu1WSMt88KeS > XT4AoJOMUNf0zl5tC17Qhba+85dn0WH0 > =eXAn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
