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Hello All,

I have a hostgroup 'unix-servers'. I have added 4 hosts in this group. I have also defined common services for this hostgroup in services.cfg which are 'Disk Space', 'CPU usage', etc, etc. The services are running fine for all the hosts and we are receiving proper notification for the defaults contactgroup 'admins' defined in general-host.cfg and general-services.cfg. Admins are there just to know the overall status.

The problem i am facing is every host is maintained by different contact and i need to send notifications to these contacts (contacts that are not in admin group) only for their respective host and its related services. How do i add this filter and where so that all the host and its related services notification will be sent to the specific contact who is responsible to look into the issue?

I used to do this earlier by defining all services inside the hosts own cfg and defining additional contact their, but after i created host groups the notification policy defined becomes common for all services running for that hostgroup. That means all contacts gets notifications for all services defined for the specific hostgroup irrespective of hosts. Is there a way to resolve this?

Try using implied inheritance. It can get soupy, but basically if you don't have contacts defined AT ALL then they will be inherited from what is in the host configuration.

Would that help achieve your goal?