Thanks for the workarounds. I'm still not sure if this is a bug or if this is the way it's intended to work, so I will repost on the nagios-dev list.
-- Jim On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:04:00 -0500 Jim Winkle <jwin...@doit.wisc.edu> wrote > I'd like to set up Nagios so that: > 1) In general, contact_groups for a host are notified about problems with the > host and any service on the host. > 2) Occasionally, we'd like other contact_groups to be notified about problems > with certain services on the host. > > If I'm understanding the documentation at > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objectinheritance.html > correctly, it indicates that #1 can be done using implied inheritance and #2 > by using additive inheritance, but it's not working as expected. I've found > other posts from people with the same issue, but never any resolution. > > For example, if I define: > > define host{ > host_name linux-server > contact_groups linux-admins > ... > } > > define service{ > host_name linux-server > service_description l_proc_sshd > contact_groups +management > ... > } > > > I would like this to be equivalent to: > > define service{ > host_name linux-server > service_description l_proc_sshd > contact_groups linux-admins,management > ... > } > > But instead, the implied inheritance of "linux-admins" is ignored, and it's > equivalent to: > > define service{ > host_name linux-server > service_description l_proc_sshd > contact_groups management > ... > } > > So contact_groups is overwritten rather than added to. No warnings/errors > were generated about the plus sign being used inappropriately or anything > else. > > Am I misunderstanding the documentation? Is this possibly a bug? > > If this is not the way it's intended to work, could Nagios be easily enhanced > to support this? It seems very logical and powerful, and apparently other > people are thinking along the same lines as I am. I'm not using escalations, > but a cursory read makes it appear to be supported there. > > Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this! > > -- > Jim > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null