Notifications

[Andreas Ericsson]

Anton Krall wrote:
> I want a customer to be able to view their server status on nagios webpage
> so I made a new contact and also his contactgroup then added his group to
> hostgroups.cfg and seem he can now see his servers on the webpage.. Now, for
> notifications, where do I needto add his contactgroup in order for him to
> get host notifications and service notifications? For services I would
> imagine adding him to contact_groups on every service or template on
> services.cfg right? 

That is correct.

And what about host notifications?
> 

For Nagios 1.x he gets notified if he's in a contactgroup connected to 
any hostgroup the host is a member of.
For Nagios 2.x he gets notified if he's in a contactgroup connected to 
the particular host object itself. Hostgroups are for prettiness in 
Nagios 2.x, and doesn't fill any logical function what so ever.

> What if I had a user that I dont want him to be able to see the server
> status via web but I would like him to get notifications on a service and
> just that service for a host?
> 

Don't add that particular user to the htpasswd file (or database or 
whatever).

> What sometimes puzzles me is that, for example, there is a reference to
> notification_enable on many files like hosts.cfg or services.cfg etc so..
> Which one is actually used or redundant?
> 

All of them are checked. If any of them say "don't notify", nagios 
doesn't. This is true for timeperiods and notification_options as well.

> Thx!
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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