Hi, I noticed some strange behaviour if I add a contact to a host definition in Nagios 3.3.2 (or so) and 3.4.1. It seems, that if I add a contact to a host, this contact will be automatically added to all services on this host also - I've checked this using the objects cache file. This kind of inheritance does not seem to happen with normal contact groups.
>From the documentation: "This is a list of the short names of the contacts that should be notified whenever there are problems (or recoveries) with this host..." One may read this like: ...the list of contacts is notified for each and every problem (even in the services) associated with the host. But for the contact_groups: "This is a list of the short names of the contact groups that should be notified whenever there are problems (or recoveries) with this host." And there this kind of inheritance does not take place. So at least, the behaviour is inconsistent - but I suspect this is a bug. You may want to have a phone call in the middle of the night, because your server went down....But I think you don't want to have a call for *all* services on the host... Cheers, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ 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