Notifying on a service when host is unreachable?

[Jeff Smith]

The Service Contacts and the Host Contacts are the same contact group.

Thanks,
Jeff

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

> What about adding the service contacts to the host contact list?
> 
> jc
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Smith [mailto:doc at neonova.net]
>>Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:29 AM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifying on a service when host is 
>>unreachable?
>>
>>
>>At my site we monitor a lot of network links.  Currently these are 
>>defined as services on the host router they connect to.  This 
>>causes a 
>>problem when the link drops and the host becomes unreachable. 
>> The way 
>>it is currently setup all the contact information for the 
>>circuit is in 
>>the service definition such that when it pages the oncall person will 
>>have all the information neccessary to contact the proper provider. 
>>However, since they are defined as services (which I believe 
>>they should 
>>be) when the host goes unreachable because the link went down 
>>the only 
>>notification sent is for the host.  Is there a way to force 
>>the service 
>>notification to be sent as well?  If not, the only other 
>>solution, that 
>>I can think of, is to define these as hosts instead of services which 
>>I'd rather not be forced to do.  Any other ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff
>>-- 
>>Jeffrey Smith
>>Operations
>>Neonova Network Services
>>
>>
>>
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