Hi Guy!
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Guy Waugh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to configure nagios 3.0.6 so that I can add contact groups to a
> host by adding a host template to the host definition.
>
> I have one host template called 'unix-host' that I'm using to aggregate the
> Unix Team contacts into a template. I have another host template called
> 'oncall-host' that I'm using to represent people on call 24x7. If a host is
> critical enough that the on-call people should be alerted if it goes down, I
> want to be able to add the 'oncall-host' host template as a template for the
> critical host, have the 'unix-host' host template as another template for the
> host, and have nagios alert both the people on call and the Unix Team admins
> if the host goes down. The on-call people should be alerted by SMS and email
> every 5 minutes, but the Unix Team admins are should only be alerted by email
> every 10 minutes.
>
> I have an email server called 'doris' that is currently down, and is
> configured as specified below. What's happening is that the on-call people
> are being alerted by SMS and email every 10 minutes (which is as it should
> be), but the Unix Team admins aren't being alerted at all. If I remove the
> 'oncall-host' template from the host definition, the Unix Team admins are
> alerted by email as they should be.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I might get the alerting working, and still be able to
> just add the 'oncall-host' template as a template for a critical host?
> Perhaps it would be better to do this with hostgroups?
>
> Here are all my definitions... sorry if it's a bit convoluted:
>
> Here's the host definition for the host in question:
> define host {
> host_name doris
> alias doris email server
> address 192.168.2.25
> parents sw-l3-mail
> use oncall-host,unix-host
> register 1
> }
>
> 'unix-host' host template:
> define host {
> name unix-host
> alias Unix Team host template
> use generic-host
> contact_groups +unix-admin
> register 0
> }
>
> 'oncall-host' host template:
> define host {
> name oncall-host
> alias Host template for critical
> hosts
> use generic-host
> contact_groups oncall-primary
> notification_interval 5
> register 0
> }
Adding a "+" before "oncall-primary" in oncall-host to specify that it
should be added to the list of contacts, rather than to replace it
completely, should give you what you want.
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