hosts.config

[Layne Meier]

Herein lies my problem.  I've inherited supporting our Nagios system.   
It was pre-configured and set-up by a previous employee.   I've gone  
over the web-based manual, but can't find specifics like this defined  
in the manual.

I was tasked with updating all of the groups and contacts, but need to  
make sure that I get it set up correctly.

Layne Meier
AJC Information Technology
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Cox Newspaper




On Nov 10, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Sein, Jenny wrote:

Hi,

I've never been able to do that
I've had to create a contact,  then a contact group for that contact.

Maybe others will tell me I've been doing it the hard way all this  
time though
:-)



-----Original Message-----
From: Layne Meier [mailto:lmeier at ajc.com]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 10:18 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hosts.config

That's what I'm trying to find out.  Can I put an individual contact
within the contact_groups list?

ie;
contact_groups			router-admins,lmeier


Thank you,
Layne Meier
AJC Information Technology
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Cox Newspaper



On Nov 10, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote:

I may be mistaken , but i don't think you can /need to define both
contact groups and individual
contacts in the host declaration.

Besides that - the definitions look fine .




On Monday 10 November 2008 14:38:54 Layne Meier wrote:
> Would it be okay then to have a host entry in the hosts.cfg file like
> this based upon the response I received from Dennis Hünsler:
>
> define host{
> 	host_name			bogus-router
> 	alias				Bogus Router #1
> 	address				192.168.1.254
> 	parents				server-backbone
> 	check_command			check-host-alive
> 	max_check_attempts		5
> 	check_period			24x7
> 	process_perf_data		0
> 	retain_nonstatus_information	0
> 	contact_groups			router-admins
> 	contacts			lmeier
> 	notification_interval		30
> 	notification_period		24x7
> 	notification_options		d,u,r
> 	}
> Thank you,
> Layne Meier
> Atlanta Journal-Constitution
>
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:21 AM, Dennis Hünseler wrote:
>
> Hi Layne,
>
> regarding the config you can configure contacts in stead of complete
> groups, but the keyword is contacts not contact as in your example :-)
>
> contacts: This is a list of the short names of the contacts that
> should be notified whenever there are problems (or recoveries) with
> this host. Multiple contacts should be separated by commas. Useful if
> you want notifications to go to just a few people and don't want to
> configure contact groups. You must specify at least one contact or
> contact group in each host definition.
>
> Regards, Dennis
>
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:54:35 -0500, Layne Meier <lmeier at ajc.com> wrote:
>
> I have a question for anyone that can answer this for me.  From the
> documentation, in configuring a host, this is the example given:
>
> define host{
> 	host_name			bogus-router
> 	alias				Bogus Router #1
> 	address				192.168.1.254
> 	parents				server-backbone
> 	check_command			check-host-alive
> 	max_check_attempts		5
> 	check_period			24x7
> 	process_perf_data		0
> 	retain_nonstatus_information	0
> 	contact_groups			router-admins
> 	notification_interval		30
> 	notification_period		24x7
> 	notification_options		d,u,r
> 	}
> In place of the contact_groups as being defined as router-admins, can
> you put the name of an actual person there (from the contacts.cfg) ie;
> define host{
> 	host_name			bogus-router
> 	alias				Bogus Router #1
> 	address				192.168.1.254
> 	parents				server-backbone
> 	check_command			check-host-alive
> 	max_check_attempts		5
> 	check_period			24x7
> 	process_perf_data		0
> 	retain_nonstatus_information	0
> 	contact_groups			lmeier
> 	notification_interval		30
> 	notification_period		24x7
> 	notification_options		d,u,r
> 	}
> Or is there a different command that needs to go there:
> define host{
> 	host_name			bogus-router
> 	alias				Bogus Router #1
> 	address				192.168.1.254
> 	parents				server-backbone
> 	check_command			check-host-alive
> 	max_check_attempts		5
> 	check_period			24x7
> 	process_perf_data		0
> 	retain_nonstatus_information	0
> 	contact				lmeier
> 	notification_interval		30
> 	notification_period		24x7
> 	notification_options		d,u,r
> 	}
>
>
> Thank you,
> Layne Meier
> Atlanta Journal-Constitution



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