difference between contact groups

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Fri Apr 4 14:17:29 CEST 2003


On 3 Apr 2003, Frank Gadot wrote:

> Let's imagine this:
> 
> I have 2 contact, A and B
> 2 contact_groups C and D
> 
> A is in C , B is in D
> 
> what if I put as a contact_groups in HOSTS.CFG A , and in SERVICES.CFG B
> 
> B will be notified ONLY if a service goes down ?
> and A will be notified ONLY if the host is unreachable/down ? 
> 
> frank.
> 

Doesn't really matter where the contact groups are located - but is 
specified in the host/service definition




> 
>  Rasmus Plewe wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:19:07PM -0500, Frank Gadot wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can somebody tell me if there is a difference between the CONTACT_GROUPS
> > > in HOSTGROUPS.CFG and SERVICES.CFG ?
> > 
> > There is a difference if you chose to use different contact groups for
> > hosts and services. 
> > 
> > Actually, I don't have any CONTACT_GROUPS in any of my files. And I
> > suspect that Nagios is case sensitive, so if I were you I would use
> > contact_groups instead. But I guess it's a problem with your caps-lock
> > key, and you don't really mean "CONTACT_GROUPS", right?
> > 
> > 
> > Rasmus
> > 

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