Stuck... Object Tricks turning into Object Failures...

[Max]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:40 PM, John Cavanaugh<cavanaughwww at hp.com> wrote:
> Max,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I had considered using escalations but I believe
> I then lose the ability to use escalations for what they were originally
> intended for, that of notifying second/third level support or managers.   Or
> do you have a way that you still accomplish that with this type of config??

You can use them for both :), overlapping escalations are perfectly
acceptable and work just fine.

> I may need to just suck it up and replicate the services per host group.  I
> hate to do it that way, but unless there is another way to sort of have a
> "mixin style" inheritance where the service can inherit details from the
> host/hostgroup Im not sure I have any other options...

I am still trying to figure out how to get non-service / host state
notifications working with this type of inheritence .. we have
multiple groups of people running different projects in a shared
instance of Nagios, each group runs their own configurations, so
having shared services is a must but letting them have complete
control over their notifications is a must as well.

I have always thought that having a notification be a separate
configuration DSL object altogether would make the most sense from a
configuration point of view .. if we had a servicenotification object
and a hostnotification object, then, as with escalations, multiple
contacts could have different policies on the same shared service or
groups of hosts without losing the non-state related notifications
using the terrific compact regex notation we can use with host and
service escalations.

> PS.   Love the "perldork" email handle.  ;-)

Thanks :).  The label fits me well.

- Max

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