service contacts mapped by hostgroup

[traylenator]

Hi

About every 3 years I decide to reorganise how I am doing hostgroup, servicegroups, ... etc. I always seem to run in to
this case which I am never happy with my solution. Simplified case:

2 hostgroups of machines all running SSH servers . The different groups of machines have different managers.

1. So I create two nagios_hostgroups (hg_A , hg_B) with a contact in each ., that is just fine for host level problems.

2. I create one nagios_service for ssh which is applied to both hostgroups.

Where do I configure the 2 sets of admins so that service events for nagios hg_A and hg_B go to different people.

I always end up creating an SSH_A and SSH_B service but this seems the wrong thing to do.

Any suggestions very welcome.

[ssax]

You can't assign contacts to a hostgroup in Nagios, please explain further what you mean by this so that I'm understanding you correctly.

You can use inheritance and define the contacts/contact_groups on the host only and NOT define any contacts/contact_groups on the services, that way the service will inherit the contacts from the hosts themselves, you can read more about inheritance here:

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https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/nagioscore/4/en/objectinheritance.html

That way you'd only have one service and the contacts/contact_groups would be inherited from the hosts (meaning they will be different).