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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as stated above, I am running nagios 3.0rc3 and I
seem to have a lack of understanding.<BR>I should state that I am new to
nagios.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I plan to have a host and service escalation for
all hosts (with their associated services) belonging to a specific hostgroup. So
here is what I have so far:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>define hostgroup{<BR>
hostgroup_name
group1<BR>
alias
group1<BR>}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face="Courier New">define contact{<BR>
contact_name
groupNetwork<BR>
use
generic-contact<BR>
alias
groupNetwork<BR>
email
</FONT><A href="mailto:groupNetwork@home.net"><FONT
face="Courier New">groupNetwork@home.net</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Courier New">}</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>define host{<BR>
use
windows-server<BR> host_name <SPAN
class=283534209-04032008> </SPAN>host1<BR>
alias Host
1<BR> hostgroups <SPAN
class=283534209-04032008> </SPAN> group1<BR>
address 10.0.0.1<BR>
parents DUSSW00<BR>
contacts <SPAN class=283534209-04032008> </SPAN>
defaultContact<BR>}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>define
hostescalation{<BR> hostgroup_name<SPAN
class=283534209-04032008> </SPAN>group1<BR>
contacts
groupNetwork<BR> first_notification
1<BR> last_notification <SPAN
class=283534209-04032008> </SPAN>0<BR> notification_interval
120<BR> escalation_period <SPAN
class=283534209-04032008> </SPAN>workhours<BR>}<BR>define
serviceescalation{<BR> service_description
*<BR> hostgroup_name <SPAN
class=283534209-04032008> </SPAN> group1<BR>
contacts
groupNetwork<BR> first_notification
1<BR> last_notification
0<BR> notification_interval 120<BR>
escalation_period workhours<BR>}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR>When I try to start nagios, it tells me that it "Could not expand
services specified in service escalation".</DIV>
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<DIV>The plan is to send a mail to defaultContact 24x7 and to groupNetwork only
in the working hours. When I remove the service escalation, I only get
notifications when the host is down (guess this is by design).</DIV>
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<DIV>Is there any other way how I can achieve this?</DIV>
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<DIV>Any help is very much appretiated.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers<BR>Klaus</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>