Contact Template Not Working?

[Marc Powell]

Thomas Quinlan <mailto:corsis_tom at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work?
> 
> define contact{
> contact_name datacenter-contact
> alias datacenter-contact
> service_notification_period 24x7
> host_notification period 24x7
> service_notification_options w,u,c,r
> host_notification_options d,u,r
> service_notification_commands notify-by-email
> host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email register 0 } 
> 
> define contact{
> contact_name nagiosadmin
> alias Nagios Admin
> email root at localhost
> use datacenter-contact
> }
> 
> I get:
> 
> Error:  Template 'datacenter-contact' specified in contact definition
> could not be found (config file '/etc/nagios/contacts.cfg', line 19) 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.  I have every other aspect of Nagios
> (hosts, hostgroups, etc) using templating, but I can't figure out for
> the life of me why it doesn't work for contacts.  


I don't have any experience with using templates for contacts but I'm
'bothered' by the use of contact_name in the template. It just seems
counter-intuitive to me in the same way that specifying a host_name in a
template would be. What happens if you remove that and alias from the
template? Also, the documentation doesn't explicitly say that you can
use templates for contacts but it doesn't explicitly say you can't
either so that's a question, at least in my mind. It is implied that it
should work though.

--
Marc


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