How to use contactgroups from Host-Definitions for all services defined for this host

[Ingo Lantschner]

Hi all,
is the below answer from Hendrik still state of the art?

Or let it say the other way: Does anyone know, how to (re-)use the 
contactgroups-definition from a host for its services? So that all 
notificatiuons for this host get to the ones, defined in the contactgroup 
statement for this host (regardless if these are service- or 
hostnotifications). I would like to avoid defining the service many times 
just to fill in the same contactgroups I have alraedy defined for the 
host.

TIA Ingo.


From: Hendrik Baecker <b00mer <at> gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Contactgroups : host vs services
Newsgroups: gmane.network.nagios.user
Date: 2005-04-07 20:40:04 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 5 days, 8 hours and 25 
minutes ago)
Hello,

many choices.... ;)

1) You can define 30 Services for the same check but different 
contactgroups = many to type
2) If you have 30 Services and want to deal with a hand full of 
contactgroups define a hand full of service templates with this hand 
full of contactgroups
3) AFAIK you don't realy apply services to hostgroups... to your hosts 
ok, but hostgroups?

The contactgroups in your hostgroup definition will be the target if you 
have a host alert but not on a service alert (so under Nagios <2.x)

My suggestion: Read the docs about templates in your object configfiles, 
since Nagios 1.1 (I think) you can use them and they are realy usefull.

Hendrik

Vanhee Frederik schrieb:

> Hello,
>
> to explain my problem, I will simplify it.
>
> Let's say I have two hosts : host1 and host2 and on these two hosts 1 
> service is checked, for example cpu load
>
> host1 has contactgroup host1admins
> host2 has contactgroup host2admins
>
> service cpu-load is defined in common for the 2 hosts, contactgroup = 
> host1admins,host2admins
>
> My problem, when the service cpu-load on host1 is not-ok, I want 
> host1admins to be alerted, when the cpu-load on host2 is not-ok, I 
> want host2admins to be alerted.
> Is there a way to filter out service-notifications that notifications 
> are only sent when to the contactgroups that belong to the host and 
> the service ?
>
> Or any other ideas ? The real problem is that my service is defined 
> once and applied to 30 hostgroups (with their contactgroups).
>
> Thank in advance,
>
> Frederik
>





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