AW: Default Contacts for Host Definitions

[Aaltonen, Jaakko]

Hm, of course you're right in some way, but how do you determine a hardware problem if a host goes down? In my opinion, especially on windows servers, the most reasons for host-down-events are os-dependent problems, not hardware failures. These host-down-events can have so many different reasons not recognizable by nagios host checks, that you should contact both hardware and software administrators of these events. 
And because we do not make a difference between hard- and software people (at least not in this case, because everyone of us is able to change a cpu in case of emergency), but between different os administrators, your explanation does not really fit my situation. Any other suggestions?


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Von: Rasmus Plewe [mailto:rplewe at hpce.nec.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 4. April 2003 15:30
An: Nagios users list
Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Default Contacts for Host Definitions


On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:22:45PM +0200, Aaltonen, Jaakko wrote:
> 
>    My suggestion would be to
>    implement the "contact_groups" directive in host object definitions,
>    and to notify those contact-groups of service-related events if there
>    are no contacts specified in the correspondent service definition.

And how do you notify the hardware people not concerned with the services if the host goes down? Currently, contacts in hosts definitions get notified on host-problems, contacts in service definitions get notified on service-problems. With your suggestion, a fire in the CPU (host down) would notify e.g. the postmaster who doesn't know a thing about changing CPUs.


Rasmus



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