Nagios implied and additive inheritance

[Mark D. Nagel]

On 3/26/2012 1:11 PM, Chris Beattie wrote:

> I couldn't get it to work that way, either.  Instead, I defined a 
> service escalation that activates on the first notification.  Something 
> like this might work:
>
> define serviceescalation {
> 	host_name		linux-server
> 	service_description	1_proc_sshd
> 	contact_groups		management
> 	first_notification	1
> 	last_notification	0
> 	escalation_options	w,c,r
> }
>
> I assign services to hosts with hostgroups, so I have a hostgroup_name 
> in my escalation definition instead of just a host_name.
>

We do something similar, but recently found that
'first_notification_delay' on hosts and services is not honored when you
handle notifications this way.  Really doesn't seem like it makes sense,
so I imagine it is just a bug.  Worked around it by having a null target
for the first escalation.

Mark

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