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Good afternoon,

Within my windows,cfg file, I have a number of hosts that refer to "windows-server" as defined in templates.cfg
"windows-server" has a contact group defined.

Within windows.cfg, I also have a number of services that refer to "generic-service" also as defined in templates.cfg
"generic-service" ALSO has a contact group defined.

Although the obvious answer would be to have the contact group defined in one place or the other but not both, at the moment, if a particular service for a particular server generated an error condition, where would the email alerts be sent - to the contact group defined in "windows-server" or the contact group defined in "generic-service"?

Thanks in advance

Pete

HI,

If service changes state to non-OK, nagios will generate notification for contact-group (or contact) defined for this service (not host)

If server goes down, nagios will generate notification for group defined in host cfg

So you can define one contact group : Admins

but you need to assign this group to Hosts and also to all services

or you can split this, create 2 groups (Host Admins, Service Admins) and assign different group to host/services..

That's explained it perfectly - thank you!

Thanks @kiklop!

@neworderfac33 - are we good to close this thread out?

Yes - close away!