Nagios notifications

[Dale J. Chatham]

Not sure if it helps or not, but you could assign aliases in mail which 
are the same as the hostname.

Then, in command configuration: /bin/mail $HOSTNAME$ -s Subject



Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips) wrote:
> Thanks for the reply but I don’t know that that would help us. The 
> problem isn’t that we cant select individual contacts. The problem is 
> our contacts are getting service notifications for hosts that aren’t 
> assigned to any of their associated contact groups.
>
> Our scenario:
>
> “contact1” is assigned to “contactgroup1”
> “host1” is assigned to “contactgroup1”
> “service1” is assigned to run on “host1”, “host2”, and “host3” and is 
> assigned to “contactgroup1”
> (note: “host2” and “host3” are *not* assigned to “contactgroup1” are 
> are not otherwise associated to “contact1”)
>
> In this scenario, why does contact1 get service notifications for 
> host2 and host3?
>
> Sorry if I’m making this explanation more complicated than necessary.
>
> Dustin
>
>
> On 10/22/08 3:41 PM, "Lacayo, Luis F" <lflacayo at cps.k12.il.us> wrote:
>
>     It is my understanding that Nagios Version 3+ allows you to put
>     individual contacts per service.
>
>     Luis
>
>
>     *From:* Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips)
>     [mailto:dustin.phillips at chartercom.com]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:47 PM
>     *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>     *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Nagios notifications
>
>     Hi --
>
>     I apologize in advance as this question is difficult to type
>     without running around in circles but here goes:
>
>     We’re having trouble configuring Nagios service notifications to
>     go to specific contacts for specific hosts.
>
>     For instance, we have contact1 who is a member of contactgroup1.
>     We have host1 who also has a contact group of contactgroup1. That
>     association is working.
>
>     However, we have service1 which runs on host1, host2, and host3,
>     and has contact groups contactgroup1 and contactgroup2. Whenever
>     host2, which is not associated with contact1 has a notification
>     for this service, contact1 is receiving the notification.
>
>     How do we limit notifications for service1 to only go to contact1
>     if the host having trouble is host1?
>
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>     Dustin
>
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