service escalations on hostgroup/servicegroup combos

[Mark Gius]

I am attempting to create service escalations that act upon a 
hostgroup/servicegroup combination.  I'd like to see escalations on 
services on certain hosts that are part of a particular servicegroup.  
I'm having trouble doing this.  I've tried a number of different ways to 
do this. 

I have tried using "hostgroup_name" in a service escalation, but left 
"servicegroup_name" and "service_description" undefined.  Doing this 
results in _no_ service escalations being created by nagios (generating 
no error messages or warnings, which is annoying in it's own right).

I have tried using "hostgroup_name" in combination with 
"servicegroup_name," which creates service escalations for every service 
in "servicegroup_name" with hostgroup_name having no noticeable effect 
upon anything.

I have tried using "hostgroup_name" (and "host_name") in combination 
with "service_description" wild-cards.  This results in an error from 
nagios.  Based on the "Object tricks" page, I _should_ be able to 
declare the following in a service definition   
   
    host_name  simpson

   service_description	*


When I do this,  I get an error about not being able to expand services 
on simpson, even though that host is currently being monitored in nagios 
with several services on it.

Has anyone configured their nagios in such a way (hostgroup/servicegroup 
overlap escalations), or knows of some way I might be able to achieve 
this setup?

Mark Gius

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