notification inheritance

Ethan Galstad egalstad at nagios.org
Thu Aug 5 04:16:45 CEST 2010


Gordon Messmer wrote:
> The documentation for object inheritance[1] indicates that where a
> notification_period is not available for a service, the
> notification_period from the associated host will be implicitly inherited.
> 
> In my nagios configuration, I have a number of services which are
> applied to hostgroups.  Rather than inheriting any notification period,
> each service has a "NULL" notification period which is treated as a
> '24x7' period.  With the attached patch, nagios will check for a NULL
> period and use the period from the associated host as the documentation
> states will happen.
> 
> I have no idea whether or not similar issues exist with the other
> implied inheritance values.
> 
> 
> 1: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
> 

Patch applied - thanks!

- Ethan

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