E-mailing separate group for subset of hosts(and their services)

[Jim Avery]

On 19 February 2010 02:02, Ryan Rawdon <ryan at u13.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've had a smallish deployment of Nagios for a while now, but now I need
> to add some more functionality to it.  I need to have Nagios notify certain
> people when there is an issue with a host or any service on it.  I see that
> adding their contactgroup to the host definition only notifies them when
> the host itself is down or up, however adding their contactgroup to the
> service definition would notify them whenever said service has an issue on
> any host - not just the ones I want them to be notified about.
>
> Where is the happy medium here?  Do I need to create a duplicate copy of
> all services on these hosts just so that I can list them as the contacts?



It depends what version of Nagios you are using (what version are you
using?).  In Nagios 3, the service will inherit any contactgroups from
the host (unless any are explicitly defined for the service).

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

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