Have you tried leaving out the notification_period line from the service definition? I think, but don't have time to verify, that by saying "notification_period null" you are actually overriding all inherited values for notification_period and setting it to null instead.
Best regards, Martin Melin On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Gordon Messmer <[email protected]> wrote: > The documentation on "Implied Inheritance"[1] indicates that a service > with no notification period will use the notification period of the > associated host definition. This doesn't seem to work when a service is > applied to a hostgroup. > > In my configuration files, I define a generic service template of my > own. It has no notification period. I also define a host template for > each customer which defines the hostgroup and notification period which > is appropriate for each host. Finally, I define a service which will > apply to all hosts within that hostgroup. > > When I run "nagios -v", I get warnings that no notification period is given: > Warning: Service 'root partition' on host 'customer1-samba' has no > notification time period defined! > > I've received some pages from hosts when checks timed out during a > period when no notications should be sent. > > Is this a bug, or am I making some mistake? Shouldn't the service be > inheriting the value from the host? Where would I start looking if it > were a bug and I wanted to fix it? > > > > define service{ > use generic-service > name my-generic-service ; The 'name' > of this service template > notification_period null ; Use the > period from the host > register 0 > } > > define host{ > name customer1-linux-server > use my-generic-server > hostgroups my-linux-servers > notification_period my-workhours > register 0 > } > > define service{ > use my-generic-service > hostgroup_name my-linux-servers > service_description root partition > check_command ssh_disk!20%!10%!/ > } > > > 1: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Return on Information: > Google Enterprise Search pays you back > Get the facts. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
