Services inherit contacts from host? (3.0b1)

[Brendan Bowden]

The short version: Is there any way to get services to inherit their contacts/contact-groups from their parent host?

The long version: Let's say I have a server defined as (simple example from my config):

define host{
        use                     linux-server
                host_name               Nagios
        alias                   Nagios Server
        address                 192.168.60.68
        parents                 VMserver
                hostgroups              +slm,virtual
        contact_groups          +slm-admins,virtual-admins
}

define service{
        use                     http
        host_name               Nagios
}

I have a server template called 'linux-server' with generic options for those, including a contact group for people who know how to fix Linux servers. Additional host/contact groups are sometimes added in the  individual host definition as shown above. For the services, I have a few generic services (http,smtp,etc) with check commands, etc defined in each. I don't really want to define a contact group for smtp-admins, etc. because there isn't a group of those people in reality; what I want to happen is (for example) if the SMTP service fails on the Linux host, the Linux admins get notified.

Notifications on host failures work perfectly according to the defined contact groups. But since there aren't any contacts defined on the service (or service template), no notifications are generated. 
I couldn't find anything even close in the macros list to get a list of contacts or contact groups for a host. Any ideas, without going into a few hundred service definitions and pasting in the same contact groups as the host?

Thanks,


-- 
Brendan Bowden
Computing and Telecom Services
Seminole Community College
407.708.2753
  





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