contact_group for all services on a host

[lichterr]

I'm wondering if there is an easy way to adjust contact_group for all services on a host? I am sure this has been answered many times on here, but I can't seem to find the answer.

Thanks!

[hsmith]

You could use a sed command.

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sed -i  's/oldcontact/newcontact/g' yourconfigname.cfg

[lichterr]

Thanks for your response, however I guess I wasn't very clear in my question. All of my hosts and services use one contact group, but for a new host and the services on it, i would like to use a different group. I can easily set the second contact group on the host itself, and all services that I have defined in that host's cfg, but there are many services that are monitored on this host but are defined by hostgroups, etc. so I'm wondering if there is a way to tell Nagios to use the secondary group for all services monitored on a particular host.

[Box293]

Perhaps creating escalations is the answer you are looking for, as an escalation will over-ride any host or service defined contacts/contactgroups.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html