Excluding contact from contactgroup

[amprantino]

Hello,

I have a host with defined contact_groups group1,group2

I don't define any contact under host services; so everything is inherited from host.
Is there any way to exclude specific contacts for a service?
Contact is a member of the groups group1 and group2

Best Regards

[mcapra]

You would have to remove that contact from the contact group and manually add them to the respective services. I realize this is less than ideal, but it is a current limitation within how Nagios Core handles inheritance. There isn't currently a way to define an "excluded contact" in any way other than simply not including the contact.

[amprantino]

It would be very practical if it could be added in the future.

Thank you for your reply

[mcapra]

Out of curiosity, and since I don't have a good lab machine to test this on, are you able to exclude contacts in the same way in which one might exclude hosts?

If you had a contact group that contained the contact "alice", and you wanted to exclude "alice" for a particular host/service definition, does this produce the desired behavior:

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contacts !alice

[amprantino]

Unfortunately I can't.
This is what I first tried, but I get the error "contact is not defined"

[mcapra]

Yeah, I see the same behavior now. Feel free to open an issue on the Github with a reference to this thread:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore

The official GitHub project is the best place to get these sort of changes addressed.

[amprantino]

This is an issue (it should work but it doesnt) or a feature request?

[mcapra]

The Github is all we have for Nagios Core. The "Issues" section is fine to file it under even though this isn't an "Issue" but rather a request for functionality.

An example from one of our more prolific community members:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... issues/342

[amprantino]

github ticket: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... issues/344

[tmcdonald]

I see there is some activity in that issue so I will be closing this forum thread.