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Hi Ethan,

first of all, thanks for your feedback.


Ethan Galstad wrote:
> I agree that this could be a useful feature. You can't do this quite as
> easily as you suggest, but you can at least make use of templates to
> make shorter escalation definitions...
>
> # TEMPLATES
> define serviceescalation{
> name se1-template
> first_notification 6
> last_notification 9
> contact_groups somegroup
> register 0
> }
>
> define serviceescalation{
> name se2-template
> first_notification 10
> last_notification 0
> contact_groups someothergroup
> register 0
> }
>
> # ESCALATIONS
> define serviceescalation{
> use se1-template
> host_name somehost
> service_description someservice
> }
>
> define serviceescalation{
> use se2-template
> host_name somehost
> service_description someservice
> }
>
> You can also use hostgroup_name and servicegroup_name directives in
> escalation definitions and * wildcards for the service_description to
> simplify the config.

Yeah, i know that and use it to its max. A typical escalation looks
like this at the moment:

define serviceescalation{

use esclevel1-17x5-sms

hostgroup_name foo_hosts

service_description Disk Space: /bar

}




define serviceescalation{

use esclevel2-17x5-voice
hostgroup_name foo_hosts

service_description Disk Space: /bar

}




define serviceescalation{

use esclevel3-17x5-voice

hostgroup_name foo_hosts

service_description Disk Space: /bar

}

Depending on how many escalation levels you have, the number of
escalations per service changes. So, at the moment, i have three
definitions per service nad hostgroup as a minimum. It would be nice to
be able to consolidate these settings to save a lot of copy and paste.

As a temporary solution, i build a script fetching all services for
hosts specified in a hosts-configfile and write the escalation files for
all services not found in a bypass file. But actually, i think this is
not the most elegant solution.

One more question: is it possible to negate specific services in an
escalation like i am able to negate host in hostgroups in Nagios 3?

Something like this:

define serviceescalation{

use esclevel3-17x5-voice

hostgroup_name foo_hosts

service_description *, ! Disk Space: /bar

}

Regards,

Marcus





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