subgroup inheritance

[Chris Jones]

Good afternoon,

This is my first post to this list!

I have a suggestion that I think would be beneficial. I was reading the 
PDF of Ethan Galstad's presentation "Nagios 3.0 and Beyond" from Nagioz 
Konferenz 2006 (a great document, by the way!). I read the section about 
"Subgroup references" which talk about how "Host, service and contact 
groups can now reference other groups for membership."

My question is, if I had something like:

-----------

define contactgroup {
    contactgroup_name       ois
    alias                   OIS Group
    contactgroup_members    ois-techs,ois-admins
    }

define contactgroup {
    contactgroup_name       ois-techs
    alias                   OIS Techs
    }

define contactgroup {
    contactgroup_name       ois-admins
    alias                   OIS Administrators
    }

define contact {
    contact_name            cjones
    contactgroups           ois-techs
    }

define contact {
    contact_name            eespring
    contactgroups           ois-admins
    }

---------

cjones would be a member of ois-techs. ois-techs would be a member of 
ois. Would that not mean that cjones would inherently be a member of 
ois, also? This doesn't seem to be the case (unless my configuration is 
wrong...). I get an error saying 'ois' has no members.

My suggestion would then be to allow inheritance when using subgroup 
directives. Inheritance is easily one of the most powerful aspects of 
Nagios, and it seems like something like this would make that strength 
even greater.

Thank you,

- Chris  

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Chris Jones
Senior Systems Manager
Pittsburg State University
Phone: 620-235-4158
E-mail: cjones at pittstate.edu
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