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My path is different, but it is zero:

Yes, but to be specific: I'm trying to break this down into individual hostgroups based on client/site name. That is, every host for a particular client/site is a member of a hostgroup e.g. "acme" so I can tailor escalations to the correct contact group on a client by client basis. I've do...

ah, that's a good question. We have been using a mixture. For instance we have a "hostgroup" ssh.cfg that is defined as a service as well as a hostgroup such that any host that we want to monitor ssh on can just have the ssh hostgroup added to the host definition. We also use service defin...

Thanks. I have set that up on a host basis, but not with a hostgroup encompassing several diverse hosts. We have a distributed nagios setup and I want to have hostgroups for all hosts in each distributed node and then use wildcards to configure service escalations for any service in any host within ...

Is it possible in Nagios Core 3.4.1 (or later) to have something like this: define serviceescalation{ hostgroup_name HOSTGROUP1, HOSTGROUP2, etc. service_description * other escalation directives ... } such that all service checks for any host in said hostgroup(s) is escalated. That is, it works for...