Different notification methods in different timeperiods

[Ben Beuchler]

I am trying to work out a clean way to use different techniques during
different notification_periods (one notification technique during
"workhours" and another during "nonworkhours") for the same service.

I already created duplicates of each contact with the new contact method:

define contact{
        use                             tapPager
        contact_name          ben
        alias                           Ben Beuchler
        email                          ben_beuchler at mcad.edu
        pager                         ben
        }

define contact{
        use                             emailOnly
        contact_name          benEmail
        alias                           Ben Beuchler
        email                          ben_beuchler at mcad.edu
        }

For each contact_group, I also created a second contact group that
just contains the "emailOnly" versions of the contacts.

The confusing part is how to assign these contact_groups to services. 
I tried sub-classing the service, changing only the
notification_period and contact_groups:

define service{
        use                               generic-service
        name                           ntpSvc
        service_description  NTP
        check_command      check_ntp
        notification_period   workhours
        host_name                 swizzle,swozzle
        }

define service{
       use                                ntpSvc
       notification_period     nonworkhours
       contact_groups           networkAdminEmail
       }

But that, of course, results in this error:

Error: Service 'NTP' on host 'swizzle' has already been defined

Clearly, I could include a second service_description, but that would
really clutter up Nagios.  Not to mention testing each service twice
as often.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!


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