Contacts and notifications - services

[Ugo Bellavance]

Mathieu Gagné a écrit :
> 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.

I am using this on Nagios 2.x and it's working.

But this also leads to a duplication of a service that is currently 
stated only once.


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