some feature requests

[Brad O'Hara]

In line.

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Volker Maibaum wrote:
>   
>> Hi, 
>>
>> I have some feature requests for nagios:
>>
>> - set contactgroups on host basis for services. So that if no contact is
>> set for a service check the host contact group is used. That would make
>> configuration a lot easier.
>>
>>     
>
> This I like.
>
>   
>> - It would be nice if it would be possible to categorise the criticality
>> of services and hosts. E.g. critical / uncritical / unimportant. So that
>> the operating could easily decide if they have to call somebody during
>> midnight or if the problem can wait till the next morning.
>> I know this could also be done by host and servicegroups, but it would
>> be nicer to have this as a parameter. Depending on the category the
>> host/service could be highlighted with different colours in the
>> web-frontend. 
>>
>>     
>
> This I don't. It's very, very simple to make the right contacts the 
> contacts of critical hosts and services and have any script you want do 
> the actual contacting, so adding complexity to the core to give another 
> way of doing the same thing doesn't sound very useful to me.
>
>   
True enough.  Our problem is that we have operations staff monitor 
Nagios and notify people off hours based on how critical the "resource" 
is not the severity of the check.

Brad

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