some feature requests

[Brad O'Hara]

Hi,

  The second "criticality" would be nice, we implemented that through 
our naming convention.

Brad

Volker Maibaum wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I have some feature requests for nagios:
>
> - set contactgroups on host basis for services. So that if no contact is
> set for a service check the host contact group is used. That would make
> configuration a lot easier.
>
> - It would be nice if it would be possible to categorise the criticality
> of services and hosts. E.g. critical / uncritical / unimportant. So that
> the operating could easily decide if they have to call somebody during
> midnight or if the problem can wait till the next morning.
> I know this could also be done by host and servicegroups, but it would
> be nicer to have this as a parameter. Depending on the category the
> host/service could be highlighted with different colours in the
> web-frontend. 
>
> define host {
>         host_name               HOST1
>         address                 ....
>         use                     generic-host
> 	criticality		high
> 	contact_groups		MR_X
>         }
>
> define host {
>         host_name               HOST2
>         address                 ....
>         use                     generic-host
> 	criticality		low
> 	contact_groups		MRS_Y
>         }
>
> define service {
> 	service_description MY_SERVICE
> 	host_name	HOST1, HOST2
> 	# inherit criticality and contact_group from host
> }
>
> regards, 
>
> Volker
>
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