Keith Edmunds wrote: >> Escalations are your friend. > > Thanks for the quick and helpful response. Unless I've misunderstood, we > would need to configure a service escalation for each service and each of > the host groups - is that right? > > What we really need it notification rather than escalation, although I > realise we can use escalations in a similar way to notifications. I'd like > to be able to say, "If any service fails on any host in hostgroup A, > notify these people". > > Thanks, > Keith
The only way I can think of to do this is to use a template for services that belong to a particular hostgroup: define service{ name hostgroup_A_service register 0 contacts managerA ... } Have all the services on hosts in hostgroup A use that template. Note that using the 'contacts' directive won't override any contacts that you specify with the contact_groups directive in other templates. I use 'contacts' to specify contacts in addition to the default ones that I specify with 'contact_groups'. So you can specify the "IT_team" as a contact_group for all services and hosts and use 'contacts' to specify the manager for particular services. Hope this helps, Paul Dubuc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ 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