Server/host Inheritance

[Mathew Walker]

The documentation on this is actually pretty good... 

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

 

If you have a host that use's the template... then in that host's config you define the same value again, it will override... except if you use the "!" and "+" signs to change the behavior.

 

in the case of contacts and hosts (like in a group)... 

 

eg, 

contact_group   +management 


Using the line above will add the management group in addition to what was assigned via the template.

If you used "!management", it should not send to the management group even if it was defined in the template.

 

If you just used it without the ! or +, it will override the template and just email management.

 

I think I got that all straight... dont' quote me, quote the documentation.  :-)


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> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:12:33 -0400
> From: frisvolj at lafayette.edu
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Server/host Inheritance
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> Greetings,
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> I have a question about inheritance within a service/host. First,
> these are completely separate, correct? ie, if I define a host with a
> contactgroup of foo, the service does not use that contactgroup, but
> rather uses the one defined by the service template, correct? Or does
> it fall back to the host contact group if a service contact group is
> undefined?
> 
> Next, if I have an existing service/host template with a contactgroup
> and I define a new service using that template, under what conditions is
> that contactgroup superseded? If I define single contacts, will it
> still use the contactgroup? How about if I specify a new contactgroup?
> Can I add/delete contacts and contactgroups without specifying the
> inherited ones?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> frisvolj at lafayette.edu
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