Servicegroups?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Next Problem...
> 
> We have different Groups being responsible for a different hostgroups...
> 
> Well the organization and notification for the host of the right person is 
> easy by ways of hostgroups.
> 
> But how about services?
> 

Each service definition has its own contact_groups definition. Nagios 
2.0 changes hostgroup and host object definitions so that contacts are 
set in each host-object as well.

> The Service 'SMTP' has a list of all Mailservers.
> 
> So how do I configure that SMTP outages in Hostgroup A should go to 
> ContactGroup ONE and SMTP outages in Hostgroup B to ContactGroup TWO?
> 
> Would I need to add a hostgroup for each Contactgroup?
> 

No, you would need to add each contactgroup to each service. I suggest 
making heavy use of either templates or some fairly strong seditive.

> There is no such thing as 'servicegroups' as far as I see...
> 

Nagios 2.0 supports this, but not with contactgroups, as explained above.

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


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