Service escalations without contacts or groups defined on the services themselves

[Chris Beattie]

Kevin Kenny wrote:
> I find this a convenient configuration because it means I don't have to 
> explicitly define contacts or contact groups at either the service 
> template or service check itself and makes management somewhat simpler.

Well, that's one way to do it, but...

> Despite the warnings, and even though this configuration works just 
> fine, is it recommended?

...I can't recommend it, personally.  It may work for you now, but it 
won't scale up.  I have over a thousand hosts and ten thousand services. 
  My preflight check has to be clean, or I would miss one new 
configuration warning as ten thousand preventable warnings scrolled past.


-- 
-Chris

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