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Hello,

I have a host with defined contact_groups group1,group2

I don't define any contact under host services; so everything is inherited from host.
Is there any way to exclude specific contacts for a service?
Contact is a member of the groups group1 and group2

Best Regards

You would have to remove that contact from the contact group and manually add them to the respective services. I realize this is less than ideal, but it is a current limitation within how Nagios Core handles inheritance. There isn't currently a way to define an "excluded contact" in any way other than simply not including the contact.

It would be very practical if it could be added in the future.

Thank you for your reply

Out of curiosity, and since I don't have a good lab machine to test this on, are you able to exclude contacts in the same way in which one might exclude hosts?

If you had a contact group that contained the contact "alice", and you wanted to exclude "alice" for a particular host/service definition, does this produce the desired behavior:

Unfortunately I can't.
This is what I first tried, but I get the error "contact is not defined"

Yeah, I see the same behavior now. Feel free to open an issue on the Github with a reference to this thread:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore

The official GitHub project is the best place to get these sort of changes addressed.

This is an issue (it should work but it doesnt) or a feature request?

The Github is all we have for Nagios Core. The "Issues" section is fine to file it under even though this isn't an "Issue" but rather a request for functionality.

An example from one of our more prolific community members:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... issues/342

github ticket: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... issues/344

I see there is some activity in that issue so I will be closing this forum thread.