Escalation in Host / Service Definitions?

[Chris Pepper]

	To keep things simple, we define contacts in our host templates. This means that adding a simple host is as simple as copying & pasting a short host definition and changing the name. I'd like to do the same for escalations -- sending to the same people's cellphones via email, at least for now.

	We definitely don't want to add a hostname to hostnameescalation & serviceescalation definitions every time we add a host (in another file).

	Is there any particular reason hosts can define contacts but not escalations? This applies equally to services, of course.

	For now, I will define hostgroups inside serviceescalation, but I'm not sure how that will affect additional contacts (added with +user in individual host & hostgroup definitions).

	Alternatively, if there's a simple way to start with email notifications and then automatically start pager notifications (for those contacts with pager: defined) after an interval, that would work as well and be even simpler. I don't see anything built in for deferring pages until a few emails have gone unanswered, though.

Thanks!

Chris Pepper

> define host {
>     name            linux-server
>     use            generic-host
>     check_period        24x7
>     check_interval        5
>     retry_interval        1
>     max_check_attempts    10
>     check_command        check-host-alive
>     notification_period    24x7
>     notification_interval    30
>     notification_options    d,u,r
>     contact_groups        admins
>     register        0
>     hostgroups        linux-servers, ssh-disks-monitored, ssh-load-monitored
>     }

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                             <http://www.extrapepperoni.com/>

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