Contacts and notifications - services

[Mathieu Gagné]

Hi,

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Mathieu Gagné a écrit :
>> Why don't you add the contactgroup "dbas" and remove "sysadmins" from 
>> the "load" service definition for all database servers?
> 
> Because the load service is defined for all my linux servers.  If I 
> remove sysadmin from the "load" service definition, I won't receive 
> notifications for my proxy server, my backup server, etc...
> 
> I hope I won't have to duplicate all of my common tests...
> 

Do you have a "monolithic" service definition? (ie. all hosts specifed 
in host_name)

If you want to do it with Nagios2, you will probably have to create a 
second service definition and move all database servers in this one.

Nagios3 supports the use of hostgroups in service definition. This means 
you would be able to create a hostgroup named "database-servers" and 
define a common service for each hostgroup's members.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service

hostgroup_name: 	This directive is used to specify the short name(s) of 
the hostgroup(s) that the service "runs" on or is associated with. 
Multiple hostgroups should be separated by commas. The hostgroup_name 
may be used instead of, or in addition to, the host_name directive.

--
Mathieu

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