<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I'm using the version of Nagios that is in Debian/Stable (which I think is a modified 1.3).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm trying to sort out escalations a little bit. I can see how hostgroup escalations work, if there is a host-level problem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If I've got, say, "smtp" service definitions for three hosts, do I really have to have three different serviceescalation declarations -- one for each service definition -- to escalate each one? Is there no way whatsoever to simply say anything with service_description "SMTP" and host_name of "*" or something?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Seems really ... well ... sucky, that for every host/service declaration I'd have to explicitly have an independent escalation declaration as well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>D</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">--</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Monaco; "><BR style="; font-family: Monaco; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">Derek J. Balling</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">Systems Administrator</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">Vassar College</SPAN></SPAN><BR style="; font-family: Monaco; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">124 Raymond Ave</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">Box 13 - Computer Center 217</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">Poughkeepsie, NY 12604</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">(845) 437-7231</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>