Mordur, Two thoughts on this. First, I find that I've been burned many times by contact/contactgroup inheritance. That is, where you define a contactgroup for a host and that gets inherited by the service (when I don't want it to).
Second, I rely a lot on looking at the "Configuration" link at the bottom of the Nagios web interface. That lets you look and see what's really defined for all the objects (hosts, services, contacts, contactgroups, timeperiods, etc). Essentially it allows me to go in and compare what I intended to say in the configuration with what Nagios really is using. Mark -----Original Message----- From: mli...@1984.is [mailto:mli...@1984.is] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:50 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Overly persistent contact group Dear list, I have nagios3 on Debian Lenny. I created a service template and host template for a customer as well as a couple of contacts and a contact group. I specified the contact group in the host and service template and created some host and service defininitions based on the aforementioned templates. So I hoped that notifications would be sent to these new contacts as per the setup descibed above. This hope failed, and notifications were only sent to a 'admins' contactgroup, which is not specified anywhere in the setup of those hosts, services, contacts, group or template. When I remove the 'admins' contact group from the config files and run a test of the config, I get this: Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'SYSTEM STATUS' for host 'host.domain.tld' is not defined anywhere! Even though this contact group is mentioned nowhere in connection with these hosts or services. It seems that all contact groups except the one named 'admins' fail to register with the Nagios system and that the 'admins' contact group is somehow automatically associated with all host definitions, regardless of which contact group is actually specified in configuration. Mordur Ingolfsson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
