[Nagios-users] Bug in 3.0.2 with service escalation contact groups

[Andreas Ericsson]

Andy Shellam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I've found a bug in Nagios 3.0.2 with the contact_groups (and 
> contacts) directive in service escalations.
> I have a contact group called "NetServe Support" which all my support 
> personnel are a member of.  In all other definitions (services, hosts 
> etc), the following line works:
> 
> contact_groups  NetServe Support
> 

It's not supposed to. If it works, it's an easter egg.

> But with a service escalation, it tries to expand that into two separate 
> groups "NetServe" and "Support" despite the documentation saying that 
> multiple groups should be separated by commas.
> 

The documentation also says that the value referred to by the variable
contactgroup_name (which can't contain spaces) is the one to use when
referencing the contactgroup from other objects. I'm guessing you're
using the alias field instead, no?

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