How to "correctly" shut off notifications on s ervices, but not for hosts

[Tedman Eng]

From: James E. Pratt [mailto:jpratt at norwich.edu]
>
> Hi. Dumb question probably, apologies in advance... 
> 
> I have a router, which I am currently monitoring snmp and ping on - i
> dont want notifies on the services, but only the host, but still want
> the services going down to trigger the host check etc etc if 
> that makes
> sense? 
> 
> What's the "proper" way to do this? I.E, disable notifications for the
> service(s) altogether, or is there another way this should be done? I
> assume that since service checking will still be "on", disabling
> notifies on the service would accomplish what I want.. is 
> that right...?

That would work.  You can also leave notification to enabled, but set those
service notification_options to "none".
This would be cleaner looking, IMO because there would be no "notification
disabled" icons in the TAC or next to the service.  The net effect is the
same.


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