Contact options on a hostgroup?

Terry td3201 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 22:01:21 CEST 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Israel Brewster
<israel at frontierflying.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to apply contact options to a hostgroup? What I'm looking
> for is a way to make different hostgroups with different contacts and
> contact options, such as "Emergency", "high-priority", "low-priority" etc.
> At the moment I am putting these things into the host template, and then for
> any hosts that need to vary (such as a lower-priority file server as opposed
> to our high-priority database server), I override the contact_groups and/or
> notification_options directive. This works, but makes maintenance a little
> difficult as there is no easy way to look at just my high-priority servers
> or the like and see what I have where. Is there a better way of handling
> this? Thanks.
> -----------------------------------------------
> Israel Brewster
> Computer Support Technician II
> Frontier Flying Service Inc.
> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> Fairbanks, AK 99709
> (907) 450-7250 x293
> -----------------------------------------------

I am not sure I understand 100%.  If you just want a way to logically
see all of your high priority servers, just create another hostgroup
called high-priority and join the respective hosts to that hostgroup.
You can then see only hosts in that hostgroup in the CGIs and apply
commands to them.

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