If your notification command sorts out whether to page or email, why not have it handle empty pager addresses? Just remove the pager address from the contacts that shouldn't get pages, and you should be fine. However I usually like and recommend separate contacts, one per contact method, as this allows you to be more flexible in setting up escalation chains etc. as well as removing ambiguity as to how a contact was notified. Regards, Martin Melin <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Terry <<a href="mailto:td3201@gmail.com">td3201@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sorry for the bad subject. Not sure how to classify this properly. I have a single contact definition for each contact: define contact{ contact_name <a href="mailto:jo@hotmail.com">jo@hotmail.com</a> alias John Doe service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_options w,u,c,r host_notification_options d,u,r service_notification_commands notification-wrapper-service host_notification_commands notification-wrapper-host email <a href="mailto:jo@hotmail.com">jo@hotmail.com</a> pager <a href="mailto:1231231234@vtext.com">1231231234@vtext.com</a> can_submit_commands 1 } This works pretty well. The command sorts out whether to page or to email, however, in the event I want to disable pages only for this contact, I can't figure out how to do it without separate contacts like this: define contact{ contact_name jdoe-email alias jdoe-email service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_options w,u,c,r host_notification_options d,u,r service_notification_commands notify-by-email host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email email <a href="mailto:jo@hotmail.com">jo@hotmail.com</a> } define contact{ contact_name jdoe-epager alias jdoe-epager service_notification_period none host_notification_period none service_notification_options c,r host_notification_options d,r service_notification_commands notify-by-epager host_notification_commands host-notify-by-epager email <a href="mailto:1231231234@vtext.com">1231231234@vtext.com</a> } With the above, I can simply set the notification period to none and thus pages are disabled. Can anyone think of another way to do this, other than timeperiods? Keep in mind, that I still may want critical emails, just not pages. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>