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I've seen a couple of threads here that look similar to what I want to do. Unfortunately, there aren't any responses that apply to my situation.

There are several buildings that I monitor. One such building has 17 network closets in it. Each closet has two automatic transfer switches and two UPSes. The basic configuration is easy: tell Nagios that ATS1 is dependent on Switch1 and ATS2 is dependent on Switch2. Under ATS1 and ATS2, I will define a service RedundancyCheck to confirm if the ATS still has both power sources.

But if we have a building-wide problem, I don't want to get 34 notifications saying all the ATSes lost redundancy. I want one notification saying that I have a power issue in the building.

A service group doesn't allow for notifications based on the status of the group, and a service dependency doesn't seem right either. That said, I could create a fake host for the building (ATSHealth) and make a status underneath it that is dependent on all of the RedundancyChecks, but that doesn't seem right.

Suggestions? Input is most appreciated.

You can use BPI for creating custom groups of services for notifications. This new created custom BPI-group can be checked in another Nagios Service Check. Now deactivate the notification for the services of the BPI-group and activate it for this BPI-Group Service-Check.

BPI is a very good plugin. Easy to install. Easy to handle per web-configuration.