Hosts notifications (not services)

[Arno Lehmann]

Helo

daviddst at wizard.xinus.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to use hosts contact_groups notifications and not services
> contact_groups notifications.
> 
> I've defined contact_group for each host (no contact_group for services).
> 
> But when I check the configuration, I've got a lot of warnings messages like
> this one :
> 
> Warning: Service 'SMTP' on host 'myserver'  has no default contact group(s)
> defined!
> 
> And with this configuration, I don't receive any notifications. What could be
> the problem ?

You described it.
You haven't defined contacts for the services. How would nagios know 
whom to notify?

You should read the manual, explaining what host checks are and when a 
host is considered down.
Basically, a host notification has nothing to do with services running 
on it or not.

Arno

> Kind regards,
> 
> David.
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