Server Group Setups

[donnyforbes]

We have some critical servers and some non critical servers.... We also have "PagerDuty" that will make phones calls, text, etc.. We don't want phone calls for our non-critical servers or devices but only for the critical ones. Is there a way to put all critical servers-devices in a group and non critical ones in a group and assign the notifications to it via the groups? If so how can I do this?

[mcapra]

One way would be to add the critical folks to a "critical contactgroup", and the non-critical folks to a "non-critical contactgroup".

Then, rather than assigning individual contacts to specific hosts/services, you would assign either the "critical" or "non-critical" contactgroup.

You could also assign a contact or contactgroup to a host or service template and propagate things down that way; Applying the critical/non-critical template to the associated hosts or services.

Ideally, you would group your "critical" and "non-critical" hosts into a hostgroup and assign contacts or a contactgroup to the specific hostgroup, but this is impossible due to limitations in Nagios Core.

Just a few options I can think of off the top of my head.

A brief overview on groups:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=507

[dwhitfield]

Thanks @mcapra!

It's possible this will be "fixed" with Core 5 comes out:

Reworking/expanding object relationships and functionality, such as dependencies, groups, escalations, and notifications

-- https://www.nagios.com/roadmaps/

[donnyforbes]

Thanks I think I understand what you are suggesting.. I will give this a shot.

[dwhitfield]

It's also worth taking a look at https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html so you can see which objects connect to other objects.

For example, you can see that you cannot add a contact or contractgroup to a hostgroup: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... #hostgroup