Thanks a lot Jim, that explanation and page cleared it up. There was a contact groups definition in the services template which overrides the inheritance from the parent host (I hadn't read any formal definition of how the Nagios inheritance works). I removed that template definition and it works as expected.
Thanks, Ryan On 2/19/10 7:35 AM, Jim Avery wrote: > 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
