Hosts notifications (not services)

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi.

DavidDST wrote:

> Thank you Arno, I've read the manual several times, trust me,  there is 
> a good reason if I want to do that.
> 
> I've got 15 servers with 5 services to supervise on each host. Each 
> server is maintain by different person, that's mean there is a 
> contact_group for each host.
> 
> Should I create 75 (15*5) services ?
> 
> There is no way to create only 5 services with all hosts inside (members 
> *), and define that contact_group depend on the host ?

Ok, I see your problem.

The solution I'd use would be a notification script which uses 
$HOSTNAME$ or -ALIAS$ to determine whom to notifiy. A simple shell 
script could do that.

Hope that helps.

> Thanks a lot.
> 
> David.
> 
> Arno Lehmann wrote:
> 
>> Helo
>>
>> You described it.
>> You haven't defined contacts for the services. How would nagios know 
>> whom to notify?
>>
>> You should read the manual, explaining what host checks are and when a 
>> host is considered down.
>> Basically, a host notification has nothing to do with services running 
>> on it or not.
>>
>> Arno
> 
> 
> 
> 

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IT-Service Lehmann                    al at its-lehmann.de
Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de


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