Everything works! But I want more!

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mark D. Nagel wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> That's just incorrect. The host does NOT have to be in a hostgroup to 
>> be checked. Mark, please don't give false answers. Check the 
>> documentation if you're not sure. Wrong answers leads to all sorts of 
>> following misunderstandings.
> 
> 
> You are right -- however, there is something special about hostgroups -- 
> they list contact groups whereas hosts do not.

This is inconsistent with how services does it. It has been fixed in 
2.0, which places the contact_groups variable immediately on each host 
object instead.

>  I may be wrong, but I 
> believe if a host is not in a host group _and_ all services fail, you 
> have to have that host in a hostgroup for notifications to be sent about 
> the host outage.

For version 1.x, yes, but it doesn't have anything at all to do with 
when and how checks are being executed, so you're very much changing the 
topic here.

>  I am not 100% on that, but investigated this after 
> noticing the pre-flight warnings regarding hosts not being in any 
> hostgroup.   If that is not correct, please let me know to whom a host
> down alert is sent when the host is not in a hostgroup?  Is it the 
> default contact in nagios.cfg?
> 

There is no default contact in nagios.cfg. I suspect you mean 
admin_email, which is shown on some of the webpages and is available as 
a macro ($ADMINEMAIL$) for notifications and some other commands. It can 
never be a target for notifications unless you've got a seriously fishy 
configuration.

> Thanks,

You're welcome.

> Mark
> 

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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