no error if missing notification_options

[Rob Brown]

Recently, I messed up my (version 2.2) configs and it took me a while
to figure out why I wasn't getting any alerts: turns out the scripts I
use to generate my configs were not writing out the
notification_options directive on my templates. Even though I had
notifications enabled everywhere, I was not getting alerts.
While admittedly, this was my problem and not Nagios', it would have
been nice to see a warning in the verification routine. Like:
Warning: service xyz has no notification options enabled.
That would have tipped me off right away.

I checked this against a 3.0b2 version i'm running on a dev server and
it seemed to exhibit the same behavior. According to the docs, I
thought notification_options was a required directive? In that case,
shouldn't it throw an error?

here's a snippit of a config that passes verify:

define service {
       name                            generic-service
       max_check_attempts              3
       normal_check_interval           30
       retry_check_interval            15
       active_checks_enabled           1
       passive_checks_enabled          1
       check_period                    24x7
       parallelize_check               1
       freshness_threshold             0
       flap_detection_enabled          1
       retain_status_information       1
       retain_nonstatus_information    1
       notification_period             24x7
       notifications_enabled           1
       register                        0
}

define service {
       hostgroup_name                  zzdummy
       service_description             zzdummy
       use                             generic-service
       check_command                   check_dummy
       contact_groups                  nagios_dev
}

notice in the template: no notification_options
no alerts will ever be sent for this service.
Is this a bug or am I missing something?

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