Defining different notification behavior for the same service on different hosts

[Scott Greenman]

I can't any way to have the same service on two hosts have different
notification rules.  Am I missing anything?
 
Say you have two hosts, 'A' and 'B'.  The service 'S' is defined as existing on
both hosts. 
 
If 'S' goes down on 'A', I want notifications sent.  If 'S' goes down on 'B', I
don't want any notifications sent.  
 
If I set the 'notifications_enabled' directive on the service to either on or
off, it's wrong for one host or the other.
 
If I set the 'notifications_enabled' directive on the two hosts, this only
affects host notifications, it seems to have no effect on service notifications
on those hosts.
 
To get what I want, It seems I'd have to create two services, one with
'notifications_enabled' set to 1 and one with it set to 0 (zero).  
 
That would be a real pain because most of my services would have to be
duplicated this way.  We run one group of machines as our 'production'
environment where notifications are turned on and another group of machines as a
'test' environment where notifications are turned off.  Both of these are
monitored by the same nagios server and both run the same set of services.
 
Unless someone can suggest an alternative, I am planning on having
notifications turned on for both environments, and add filtering in the script
defined as the 'service_notification_commands' for the contacts. This has the
down side that Nagios will show I sent notifications to both hosts, when some of
those notifications will have been filtered out by my script.
 
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
Scott Greenman
 

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