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If I understand them correctly, a service dependency can prevent a dependent service being checked and/or sending notifications when the service it depends on is failing. But if a dependent service is checked and fails before the service it depends on checks and fails then they will both appear as d...

That's great. Just to confirm, I've added the contact group to the service definition and can see notifications going to everyone now.

Hi, Scott, thanks for the reply - that's the page I had been referring to when designing this setup but it doesn't really say that an explicit contact will cancel an inherited contact group (and presumably vice versa), so maybe that could be made more clear?

I have a server running "App X" looked after by a team of four people who are defined in the contact group "appx", I have a particular service check "Service X" where I want an extra individual (Joe) to be notified of problems with. The contact group is specified in a h...

Okay, brilliant; thanks for your help

Can someone please help explain the %b portion of the printf command in the default notification command definitions? Is it just to allow \n to produce new lines in the construction of an email? I want to build an additional notification command that is simplified for SMS messaging (so will all be o...

Thank you, Scott - I had the quotes around that part based on how my check_by_ssh commands were defined.

I can confirm your solution has fixed the problem.

Nagios Core 4.3.2 on RHEL 7.4 monitoring Windows 2008R2 running NSClient++ 0.5.2.35 When I try to configure a command/service using check_uptime with arguments, it errors in Nagios as "Unknown command(s): check_uptime -a 'warn= uptime > 27d'" and using nscp test on the target server while ...

Okay, thanks for the quick response anyway.

Is there any way to use a macro in a service notes URL value which parses the username of the user logged in to the webfront? On an SSH availability check, I'd like to use a notes URL like ssh://$USERNAME$@$HOSTNAME$ as my users will be logged in to Nagios with the same username as the Unix account ...