Design recommendation

[Ingo Lantschner]

Frank Altpeter schrieb:

> The problem now is, that i need to have _some_ of these servers to use
> other contact_group settings because there are customers that want to
> receive notifications about their hosts and services.
> Now, i checked the documentation where i found the following:
> 
> "Each host may belong to one or more host groups. Each host group has
> a <contact_groups> option that specifies what contact groups receive
> notifications for hosts in that particular host group. " (taken from
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/notifications.html)
Well the next sentence says: "When Nagios sends out a host notification, 
it will notify contacts that are members of all the contact groups that 
that should be notified for any and all host groups that the host is a 
member of."

I guess the point is _host_ in "sends out a host notification". So what 
you can do is ...

> ... adding the same service
> definition one more time for this host only, with different
> contact_groups setting...
I am afraid, this is what you have to do. At least I did not find a 
better solution for this yet. (But I would be very interested in hearing 
about it!).

> The problem can be solved easily for the host itself, since the host
> definition allows the contact_groups setting, but that is AFAIK only
> valid for the host and does not get inherited from depending service
> definitions (which would be a great invention IMHO).
I agree!

hth, Ingo.

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