Service notifications and host groups

Dan Tulovsky Dan.Tulovsky at sbiandcompany.com
Fri Jun 27 19:18:36 CEST 2003


I was afraid you were going to say that... :(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Bishop [mailto:dbishop at ehvert.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:15 PM
> To: Dan Tulovsky; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Service notifications and host groups
> 
> 
> Dan,
> 
> 	Nope, you need to break your service definition into 
> two service definitions, each with its own contact_group 
> directive, to accomplish this.
> 
> 	Templating may help in easing your pain.
> 
> define service{
>         use                             disk-unix-service       
> 	  service_description	          disk-unix-service_template
> 	  < lots of stuff deleted>
> 	  register				    0
>         }
> 
> define service{
> 	  use
> disk-unix-service_template
>         service_description		    disk-unix-service-group1
> 	  host_name                       host1
>         contact_groups                  group1
> 	  }
> 
> define service{
> 	  use
> disk-unix-service_template
>         service_description		    disk-unix-service-group1
>         host_name                       host2
>         contact_groups                  group2
> 	  }
> 
> Regards,
> dean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Tulovsky [mailto:Dan.Tulovsky at sbiandcompany.com] 
> Sent: June 27, 2003 12:17 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Service notifications and host groups
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I was wondering if someone could clarify notifications for 
> me. According to the documentation, host notifications (when 
> a server goes down or comes back up) are sent to 
> contact_groups defined in the hostgroups file.
> 
> # 'all' host group definition
> define hostgroup{
>        hostgroup_name  All
>        alias           All Systems
>        contact_groups  group1
>        members         *
>        }
> 
> So according to this definition, when any server goes down, 
> the group group1 gets notified.
> 
> Now, when a service on any of these servers goes down, the 
> contact_group for the hostgroup is not used, rather the 
> contact_group for the service definition gets notified.
> 
> Can I somehow set it up so that when a service on a host goes 
> down, the contact_group associated with that host gets notified?
> 
> For instance, I have a service definition:
> 
> define service{
>         use                             disk-unix-service       
>         host_name                       host1, host2
> 	  < lots of stuff deleted>
>         }
> 
> When the service on host1 goes down, I want the contact_group 
> group1 to be notified.  I can do this by putting
> 
>         contact_groups                  group1
> 
> Into the service definition.  But, I when this service breaks 
> on host2, I don't want group1 to be notified.  I want group2 
> to be notified.  So really I just want the services on each 
> server to be tied to the host notifications instead of the 
> service notifications.
> 
> Thank you much.
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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