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[Jim Avery]

> Does the contact_groups section support inheritance or is that a version
> 3.0 feature?

I don't think so, no.  I don't know much about what's coming-up in version 3.0.

> The problem with using a template (at least for us) is that we have a lot
> of machines that have very specialized contact groups. Like 1-2 people for
> this host, 1 person for that host, etc. For that, I build a small contact
> group in to each host that requires it (e.g. cg_hostname) and then enter
> the people in there.

That's probably not a bad way of doing it.  As people change
responsibilities, it makes it easy to move people from one group to
another.  Another option would be just to have a contact_group for
each person and specify multiple contact_groups for each host/service
as required.

> I'm not too fond of doing that, so if I could have the contact_groups in
> the template *merge* with the contact_group in the host/service that would
> be great. Or perhaps even allow individual contacts on hosts and services?

I'm with you there; it would be nice if you could specify individual
contacts rather than contact_groups in the host and service
definitions.  For most of us, though, having to specify contact_groups
encourages a more sensible configuration.

You can use the template to set a default set of contact_groups, which
are then overridden if you specify the contact_group directive in the
host or service definition.  I don't know if that would help you a
great deal though.

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