services.cfg and notifications (wishfull thinking)

[Dan Rich]

Williams, P. Lane said:

> I would like to send notifications to individual contacts without creating a
> new contactgroup for services.  Such as use "contacts" instead of just
> "contact_groups".  Has anyone found where in the code this can be enabled.

I can't help you on this one, but....

> I would also like to be notified by pager and by email for some services and
> only email for other services.  The only way I see doing this is making use
> of event handlers.

I do this by having two contacts for each person, ex. drich and drich-nopage. 
The drich contact has both a pager and e-mail defined, the drich-nopage has
only the e-mail.  I use drich-nopage for services that I never want to be
paged for (like performance monitoring on our web server and printers) and
drich for services where I want pages.

define contact {
        name                            systems
        service_notification_period     24x7
        host_notification_period        24x7
        service_notification_options    c,r
        host_notification_options       d,r
        service_notification_commands   notify-by-email,notify-by-qpage
        host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email,host-notify-by-qpage
        register                        0
}
define contact {
        name                            systems-nopage
        service_notification_period     24x7
        host_notification_period        24x7
        service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
        host_notification_options       d,u,r
        service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
        host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
        register                        0
}
define contact{
        use                             systems
        contact_name                    drich
        alias                           Dan Rich
        email                           drich at pdi.com
        pager                           drich
        }
define contact{
        use                             systems-nopage
        contact_name                    drich-nopage
        alias                           Dan Rich
        email                           drich at pdi.com
        }



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