[SOLVED] Problem:Different Inheritance for Hosts vs Services

[kjhosein]

I have a weird problem with Nagios inheritance.

Here's my setup:

• * Hosts are all in Hostgroups
  * Contacts are all in Contactgroups
  * Services are assigned to Hostgroups (not to Hosts)
  * Contactgroups are assigned to Hosts
  * Contacts and contactgroups are *not* assigned to services. I'm depending on implied inheritance per http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... nheritance for the service to inherit its contactgroup(s) from the host.

Here is an example of one of my contactgroups. The ones in the square brackets [] are the groups, and the others are just contacts:

[alerts_for_production]
|--ernie_for_production_email
|--bert_for_production_email
|--[backup_alert_group]
. . . |--grover_for_backup_email (grover is a contact member of the backup_alert_group)


But here's what's happening (from observing objects.cache):

The hosts see the contactgroup as alerts_for_production, but the associated services see the contactgroup as backup_alert_group. I would have thought that both hosts and associated services would see both alerts_for_production and backup_alert_group as the contactgroups.

As a test, I decided to add in a single contact to the host (for example, ernie_for_production_email). That worked as expected - both host and service were assigned that contact.

Is this expected behavior or is my understanding incorrect?
I'd appreciate any insight or thoughts. Thanks!

[lmiltchev]

The following table lists the object variables that will be implicitly inherited from related objects if you don't explicitly specify their value in your object definition or inherit them from a template.

Can you show the service definition? Have you assigned any contacts/contactgroups to this service? Are you using a template?

[kjhosein]

Good call @lmiltchev! I had thought that my service template didn't have any contact info in it, but I was mistaken. Once I removed the contact group from the service template, the config expanded out as I expected.

Thanks!