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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Ahhhh – Thanks Robert. I think it would be of great help if the wildcard information was on the pages detailing service and host escalations! :)<BR>
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On 7/6/07 2:30 PM, "Robert King" <robert.king@publishingtechnology.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Steven Haigh wrote:<BR>
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I've read through the docs of serviceescalation and hostescalation and<BR>
there's one thing that remains unclear to me. If a hostescalation is<BR>
defined, does this ONLY activate when the host check fails (ie<BR>
check-host-alive) or if any of the services on the host fails?<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The host escalation will only be used for host checks. You'll need to escalate the services on the host separately.<BR>
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If it's only triggered on the check-host-alive failing, is there an easy<BR>
way (ie a wildcard or similar) to activate escalation based on ALL<BR>
services for a host? Does this require a serviceescalation definition<BR>
for EVERY service on a host? I sure hope not!<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Yes, you can use a wildcard, e.g.:<BR>
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define serviceescalation {<BR>
hostgroups important-hosts<BR>
service_description *<BR>
contact_groups all-page<BR>
first_notification 5<BR>
last_notification 20<BR>
notification_interval 2<BR>
}<BR>
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For more information on this, see the Nagios manual section entitled "Time-saving tips for object definitions":<BR>
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<a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html</a><BR>
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Hope this helps,<BR>
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Rob<BR>
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