Notifiactions question
Arno Lehmann
al at its-lehmann.de
Wed Jul 23 11:53:39 CEST 2008
Hello,
23.07.2008 11:20, Marc Torres wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm quite newbe to nagios, and I'm trying to configure notifications
> for services according to host contacts. I mean, I would like to
> configure contacts (or contact groups) only in the hosts definitions,
> and then when a monitorized service at that host has a hard state
> change, the notification gets send to the contact configured at the
> host definition.
You could do this with custom variables.
You set the data you need for the notifications in the host as, for
example,
_NOTIFICATIONMAIL
and create a new notification script that uses this address (if
defined) instead of the default supplied by the Nagios configuration.
Arno
> My problem is that I've got one hostgroup which has all hosts related
> to it. The services are configured for that hostgroup (all the hosts
> run the same services), this way I'm monitoring the same services in
> all hosts. But according to [1], I've to configure a contact or a
> contactgroup at least for the service, and here comes my problem.
>
> I would like not to share the same contacts for the same service in
> the different hosts, I would like to configure different contacts for
> the same service in different hosts. The contact should be the same
> configured in the host definition, so my question is if its possible
> to configure nagios to send service notification at destinations
> configured at hosts definition instead of service definition.
>
> I've read almost all the docs from [2]. But I didn't found a easy way
> to achieve it. The only solution that comes to my mind is to create a
> template for each service and then create a service for each host that
> inherits from the template and has the same contact of the host, but
> this is hard to achieve as I may have hundreds of hosts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc.
>
> [1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service
> [2] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html
--
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
www.its-lehmann.de
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