service escalation on all services of all hosts

[Michael Barrett]

Ahh, ok, that would explain it.  That's a bummer.   Thanks.

On Jun 7, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Paul M. Dubuc wrote:

> 
> Michael Barrett wrote:
>> Hi, I'm having a problem with an example given in the Tips&  Tricks documentation page. Currently I'm running: Nagios Core 3.2.0
>> 
>> Anyway, the tip I'm trying is from here http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objecttricks.html#serviceescalation
>> 
>> The particular tip reads:
>> 
>> All Services On Same Host:
>> If you want to create service escalations for all services assigned to a particular host, you can use a wildcard in the service_description directive. The definition below would create a service escalation for all services on host HOST1. All the instances of the service escalation would be identical (i.e. have the same contact groups, notification interval, etc.).
>> 
>> If you feel like being particularly adventurous, you can specify a wildcard in both the host_name and service_description directives. Doing so would create a service escalation for all services that you've defined in your configuration files.
>> 
>> ##########
>> 
>> So I tried the following:
>> 
>> define serviceescalation {
>>     name                    email-all
>>     first_notification      1
>>     last_notification       0
>>     notification_interval   120
>>     contact_groups          ops-group
>> 
>>     register 0
>> }
>> 
>> define serviceescalation {
>>     use                     email-all
>>     host_name               *
>>     service_description     *
>> }
>> 
>> And when I go to restart nagios I get the following:
>> 
>> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service (config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/services.cfg', starting on line 34)
>>    Error processing object config files!
>> 
>> 
>> Anyone know why this is a problem?  Am I missing something in the documentation, or is it just incorrect?
>> 
> 
> You probably have some hosts that have no services assigned.  Using the wildcard for both host_name and service_description will not work in that case, unfortunately.  All hosts specified MUST have a service that matches the given service_description or you will get this error.
> 
> Paul Dubuc

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Michael Barrett
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