Bug or by design? services inheriting contacts from host

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Matt Nelson wrote:

> Service:
>
> define service{
>     use                     noncritical-service
>     host_name               myHost
>     service_description     myMonitor
>     check_command           bla bla bla
>     contact_groups          +myGroup2
> }
>
>
> Host:
>
> define host {
>                  use                     default
>                  host_name               myHost
>                  alias                   myHost
>                  address                 myHost.domain
>          contact_groups      myGroup1
>                 }
>
>
>
>
>
> The problem that I am seeing is that since we have a  
> "contact_groups" defined in the service it is not taking the  
> myGroup1 from the host and adding the myGroup2 to that.  So the  
> result is that I am getting notifications send to myGroup2, but not  
> myGroup1 AND myGroup2 and I am expecting.

My reading of the documentation is that the host->service inheritance  
you are expecting only works if contact_groups isn't specified in the  
service. Once you define it, in any way, the implied inheritance is no  
longer valid.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html ->  
Implied Inheritance

--
Marc


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