Per service notificatin options in 2.x ?

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Folks,

Is it possible to configure different notification options (in partic, 
do _not notify by epager) for _services_  with Nagios 2.x ?

The scenario is a high rate of service notifications and 
no respite because the service is b0rked and management will not 
replace, it but expect it to be patched up each time.

An event handler takes care of the auto restart but the notifications 
interrupt people.

The only way I can think of to handle this is

. make the host a member of a new contact group

. put the current contact group members in the new group, with new names

. define new contact definitions (with the new properties such as 
service_notification_commands   notify-by-email) for each of the new 
contact names.

This seems redundant and long winded and also changes the notification 
methods for those services on the host that are not volatile/broken.

Is it possible to do this more easily some other way ?

The config parser rejects 'service_notification_commands' properties in 
the service definition file; is there any other way ?

Yours sincerely.


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