Implied/Additive inheritance

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 10-07-08 05:44 AM, john at moodysrus.com wrote:
> Hey Team,
> 
>  
> 
> I am having trouble combining ‘Implied’ and ‘Additive’ inheritance for
> normal service notifications.  The documentation implies the ability to
> combine ‘Implied’ with ‘Additive’ inheritance is restricted to
> escalations, is this correct?  If so, can I suggest this **very**
> powerful option be expanded to work with normal service notifications?
> 
>  
> 
> The scenario is the primary contact_group (‘+support_team’ for example)
> is set at the host level.  This group is nicely inherited by all the
> services on that host (very cool).  If we add a contact_group
> (‘+developers’ for example) to an individual service on that host, the
> primary_contact group information is overridden, and only the
> ‘developers’ are contacted.

+1... I have the same issue and I reported it a while ago. I don't think
the fix would be so hard, but I haven't had the time to really look into it.

FWIW I also suggested generric templates, because some of my additive
templates contains instructions that can be used at multiple places (ex
hostgroups that can be added to service templates, service dependencies,
etc.
http://ideas.nagios.org/a/dtd/18864-3955


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Thomas
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