On 19 February 2010 02:02, Ryan Rawdon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've had a smallish deployment of Nagios for a while now, but now I need > to add some more functionality to it. I need to have Nagios notify certain > people when there is an issue with a host or any service on it. I see that > adding their contactgroup to the host definition only notifies them when > the host itself is down or up, however adding their contactgroup to the > service definition would notify them whenever said service has an issue on > any host - not just the ones I want them to be notified about. > > Where is the happy medium here? Do I need to create a duplicate copy of > all services on these hosts just so that I can list them as the contacts?
It depends what version of Nagios you are using (what version are you using?). In Nagios 3, the service will inherit any contactgroups from the host (unless any are explicitly defined for the service). See: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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
