Contact Groups in hosts.cfg and services.cfg

[Todd Barbera]

Hi,

I'm running Nagios 2.0rc2 and I have a question as to the way contact_groups
are implemented. Both the hosts.cfg (or equivalents) and the services.cfg
require the contact_groups definition. Perhaps I am thinking about this
wrong, but wouldn't it be better to make contact_groups optional in the
services.cfg? The reason being is that if the services.cfg inherits the
contact_groups from the hosts.cfg definitions, then you wouldn't need to
define multiple services running the same checks but with different
contact_group definitions. For instance, I want check_icmp to run against
all hosts, however, I want to break up the notifications to various groups,
I'd have to have multiple entries for the check_icmp in my services.cfg file
to accommodate this. This wouldn't be necessary if the contact_groups were
inherited from the hosts definitions. Am I correct in my assumptions? If
not, how can I achieve a single definition with different contact_groups? If
so, does it make sense to have contact_groups become an optional field or
are there pitfalls that I am not considering?


Regards,


Todd



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