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tmcdonald wrote:
You might try adding "contact_groups +SQL" to your service definition.

If I add contact_groups +SQL to my service def, won't that affect all hosts with that service?

If I do that, won't it be the contact group for all windows servers that use that template? I was trying to just have this group receive notifications for my SQL servers only, which it does when i add the SQL group to the host, it's just not getting the services associated with that host. My admins ...

As I understood it, if I add another group to the contact_groups on one of my hosts, the services associated with this host should use the same contact_groups. In my case, the services are all being associated by a hostgroup. Below are my settings... I don't think I have any problem with my contact ...