multiple notification/escalation definitions

[Jeff Williams]

On 3/6/06, Jeff Williams <jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if I'm missing something or thinking about this
> incorrectly. I have some hosts that have services and their contact
> groups already defined like so:
>
> define service{
>         use                           generic-service
>         host_name                     vader
>         service_description         NTP
>         is_volatile                       0
>         check_period                  24x7
>         retry_check_interval        1
>         contact_groups                oncall,ulsysadmins,dba
>         notification_interval         5
>         notification_period           24x7
>         notification_options          w,u,c,r
>         check_command              check_ntp
> }
>
> I also have an escalation for this service:
>
> define serviceescalation{
>         host_name                     vader
>         service_description           NTP
>         first_notification            2
>         last_notification             2
>         notification_interval         5
>         contact_groups                oncall
> }
>
> define serviceescalation{
>         host_name                     vader
>         service_description           NTP
>         first_notification            3
>         last_notification             4
>         notification_interval         5
>         contact_groups                oncall,backup
> }
> define serviceescalation{
>         host_name                    vader
>         service_description           NTP
>         first_notification            5
>         last_notification             0
>         notification_interval         0
>         contact_groups                oncall,backup
> }
>
> What I'm wondering is if I can add another contact for this service
> that gets notified after 30 minutes, but only gets notified once.
> Ideally I would like to be able to do this as easily as possible and
> for an entire group of servers and for multiple services, if possible.
> We are migrating from big brother and while big brother is not nearly
> as complex and functional as Nagios, it can be done in big brother
> with probably one line. Am I missing something though? Can a service
> be defined twice? Or can I define it in an escalation that includes
> the entire hostgroup that I want? Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeff



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