Derive service settings from hosts definition

[Chris Beattie]

On 7/30/2012 2:31 PM, Vladislav Staroselskiy wrote:
> Is there any way to derive certain service options from the host definition? Is there any default inheritance behavior for it?
...
> I really wish, service notification/contact options could be derived from hosts definitions to avoid this mess. If anyone has a
> suggestion on how to better organize it, I would also appreciate your feedback.

Nagios does almost exactly that, except for the enabling or disabling of 
notifications.

Services will inherit their contact_groups, notification_interval, and 
notification_period from their associated host if those three directives 
are not set in the service's definition.

Search for "implied inheritance" down the page here:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html

Also, you can use a + sign to signal additive inheritance, which comes 
in handy if you want to modify an implied inheritance without replacing 
it.  It's explained directly above implied inheritance on that page.

-- 
-Chris

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