Notification period inheritance problem

[Gordon Messmer]

The documentation on "Implied Inheritance"[1] indicates that a service 
with no notification period will use the notification period of the 
associated host definition.  This doesn't seem to work when a service is 
applied to a hostgroup.

In my configuration files, I define a generic service template of my 
own.  It has no notification period.  I also define a host template for 
each customer which defines the hostgroup and notification period which 
is appropriate for each host.  Finally, I define a service which will 
apply to all hosts within that hostgroup.

When I run "nagios -v", I get warnings that no notification period is given:
Warning: Service 'root partition' on host 'customer1-samba' has no 
notification time period defined!

I've received some pages from hosts when checks timed out during a 
period when no notications should be sent.

Is this a bug, or am I making some mistake?  Shouldn't the service be 
inheriting the value from the host?  Where would I start looking if it 
were a bug and I wanted to fix it?



define service{
         use                             generic-service
         name                            my-generic-service ; The 'name' 
of this service template
         notification_period             null            ; Use the 
period from the host
         register                        0
         }

define host{
         name            customer1-linux-server
         use             my-generic-server
         hostgroups      my-linux-servers
         notification_period     my-workhours
         register        0
         }

define  service{
         use                     my-generic-service
         hostgroup_name          my-linux-servers
         service_description     root partition
         check_command           ssh_disk!20%!10%!/
         }


1: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html

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