hostgroupescalations not working

[Derek J. Balling]

I'm running the latest version of Nagios included with Debian sarge/ 
stable (it reports itself as 1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1).

I have defined, in /etc/nagios/escalations.cfg, a  
hostgroupescalation, like so:

define hostgroupescalation{
         hostgroup_name                  all-linux
         first_notification              3
         last_notification               0
         contact_groups                  oncall,sysadmins-pgr
         notification_interval           5
}

... thinking that from escalation point 3 and up, the oncall person  
and the sysadmins will get notified every five minutes.

Except that it never seems to get processed. The "default"  
contact_groups, from the services declaration, all get their notices,  
but the escalation-people never get theirs.

I created a service escalation (for the service I've been using to  
test the escalation), and it worked just fine (it's now commented out  
though as I try to get the hostgroupescalation to work):

#define serviceescalation{
#       host_name               smtp03
#       service_description     SMTP
#       first_notification      3
#       last_notification       0
#       contact_groups          oncall,sysadmins-pgr
#       notification_interval   5
#}

... so I know that the escalations.cfg is being processed, and it's  
*willing* to escalate, just not to escalate for a hostgroup.

I confirmed that smtp03 *is* in the "all-linux" hostgroup  
declaration, and it appears there in all the GUI locations, so it's  
not that the hostgroup simply doesn't match the server in question.

What am I missing? Is this some stupid typo that I'm not noticing?  
The members of the service's contact_groups field all get their  
notices, but the people it's supposed to escalate to don't. What am I  
missing?

Thanks much!

Cheers,
D

--

Derek J. Balling
Systems Administrator
Vassar College
124 Raymond Ave
Box 13 - Computer Center 221
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
(845) 437-7231


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