Nagios Support Forum

Why not allow both options: If i don't define any contacts for a service
then nagios will use the contact of the host (I think that was what the
original poster wanted to say...).

/FredrikW


Greg Panula wrote:

>Matt McKinnon wrote:
>
>
>>i'm curious why service definitions require contact groups. for example:
>>
>>define service{
>> use basic-service
>> host *
>> service_description SERVICE
>> check_command check-host-alive
>> }
>>
>>let's assume the "basic-service" definition i use has all required
>>directives except "contact_groups".
>>
>>if a SERVICE goes down on a host, shouldn't nagios see that:
>>
>>. that host is part of a host group
>>. that host group has a contact group
>>. that contact group has a contact
>>. that contact should receive mail if SERVICE on that host goes down
>>
>>if i have 20 contracts, each with a different contract email address, my
>>global service check that should save me time isn't so cool anymore. am i
>>missing something here?
>>
>>-matt
>>
>>
>
>
>I think the missing part here is you are assuming the same person/group
>is responsible for all the services being watched on a host.
>
>To use Jim's example of an oracle database...
>The DBAs would care about oracle being up and running(oracle service
>check) and the sysadmin for that box probably only cares if disk space
>is running out(disk space check), not whether oracle is running or
>not(not directly his problem).
>
>So DBAs would probably get both oracle & disk space notifications and
>sysadmins would only get disk space notifications.
>
>With the logic you suggested above, one couldn't seperate out
>notifications to different groups for each service on a host. All
>notifications would just go the host contact.
>
>In your case, a "generic" service template will save you some effort but
>each host with a unique contact will need its own service defined.
>
>Something like
>define service{
> name blah
>
> register 0
> }
>
>define service{
> use blah ; suck in the template
> host host1.foobar.com
> contact_group someone-who-cares
> }
>
>yes, no, maybe?
>
>greg
>
>
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