Notification determination sequence

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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:30:05PM +1000, Collins, Steve wrote:
> I've been puzzling my way through the Nagios doco to determine why
> certain folk aren't getting messages I'd like them to get, and why
> others are getting messages they don't need.  All I need from the list
> is a clarification that I have my head on straight, or that I'm
> talking out my backside.
> 
> What I'm concluding is that contacts noted at any level - host,
> hostgroup, service are trumped in the following order:
> 
> Service -trumps-> Hostgroup -trumps-> Host
> 
> It may well be somewhat more complicated than that (which I'd like to
> understand).  Can I get a little clarification if anyone has the time?
> I think I have it, but I want to make sure I have it right.

My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that contacts for
services are separate to contacts for hosts (and therefore
hostgroups).  Is the group that is receiving notifications
specified in contact_groups for the service(s)?

I always use service templates for each logical grouping of
services, and specify the contact groups in the template.
This approach gives you most of the benefits of hostgroups.


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