contact groups in hostgroups versus services?

[Scott Machtmes]

Part of the confusion comes from the fact that you have to have at least 
one service for a host, commonly ping I assume as in my case. But in the 
case of the PING service.

So am I correct in assuming then that I probably don't want to have 
contacts listed in the ping service that are not in the hostgroup 
contact list (from a logical, common sense point of view).

Thanks, for the quick response. This list is very helpful.

Matt Pounsett wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Scott Machtmes wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am confused.
>>
>>What is the relationship between the contact_groups in hostgroups and 
>>services?
> 
> 
> Groups in the contact_groups for a host get notified when the status of the
> host itself changes.  Groups in the contact_groups for a service get notified
> when the status of the service changes.  
> 
> So, say you have an database server... the sysadmins can be notified if the
> host goes down, but your DBA can be notified if the database itself goes
> offline.
> 

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