Defining different notification behavior for the same service on different hosts

[Andreas Ericsson]

Scott Greenman wrote:
> I can't any way to have the same service on two hosts have different
> notification rules.  Am I missing anything?
>  
> Say you have two hosts, 'A' and 'B'.  The service 'S' is defined as existing on
> both hosts. 
>  
> If 'S' goes down on 'A', I want notifications sent.  If 'S' goes down on 'B', I
> don't want any notifications sent.  
>  
> If I set the 'notifications_enabled' directive on the service to either on or
> off, it's wrong for one host or the other.
>  
> If I set the 'notifications_enabled' directive on the two hosts, this only
> affects host notifications, it seems to have no effect on service notifications
> on those hosts.
>  
> To get what I want, It seems I'd have to create two services, one with
> 'notifications_enabled' set to 1 and one with it set to 0 (zero).  
>  
> That would be a real pain because most of my services would have to be
> duplicated this way.  We run one group of machines as our 'production'
> environment where notifications are turned on and another group of machines as a
> 'test' environment where notifications are turned off.  Both of these are
> monitored by the same nagios server and both run the same set of services.
>  
> Unless someone can suggest an alternative, I am planning on having
> notifications turned on for both environments, and add filtering in the script
> defined as the 'service_notification_commands' for the contacts. This has the
> down side that Nagios will show I sent notifications to both hosts, when some of
> those notifications will have been filtered out by my script.
>  
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>  

Sounds sensible. Since the two services really have different options 
defined, you can't keep them as one service without hackery. If the 
hackery lets you maintain configuration in a very simple manner I'd say 
it's worth it. Otherwise I'd go with creating two services.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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