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[Sean Keplinger]

Does the contact_groups section support inheritance or is that a version 
3.0 feature?

The problem with using a template (at least for us) is that we have a lot 
of machines that have very specialized contact groups. Like 1-2 people for 
this host, 1 person for that host, etc. For that, I build a small contact 
group in to each host that requires it (e.g. cg_hostname) and then enter 
the people in there.

I'm not too fond of doing that, so if I could have the contact_groups in 
the template *merge* with the contact_group in the host/service that would 
be great. Or perhaps even allow individual contacts on hosts and services?


Thanks for the suggestion.
Sean


On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jim Avery wrote:

> There are lots of options.  One thing I do is to have a separate
> template for each class of host or service.  The template will specify
> the contact_groups option, for example:
>
> template for GOLD hosts has
> contact_groups    me,engineers,on-call
>
> template for SILVER hosts has
> contact_groups   me,engineers
>
> template for BRONZE hosts has
> contact_groups  engineers   (I don't care about bronze hosts)
>
> tempate for ROUTERS has
> contact_groups  comms_guys,comms_pager
>
>
> I agree with you, it often makes sense to define a separate contact
> for paging, not least because it will probably want alerts in a
> different timeperiod to ordinary users.
>
> hth,  Jim
>
> p.s. sorry Sean, you'll get this twice 'cos I forgot to reply to the
> list at first.
>

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