Notification period inheritance problem

[Martin Melin]

Have you tried leaving out the notification_period line from the
service definition? I think, but don't have time to verify, that by
saying "notification_period null" you are actually overriding all
inherited values for notification_period and setting it to null
instead.

Best regards,
Martin Melin

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:
> The documentation on "Implied Inheritance"[1] indicates that a service
> with no notification period will use the notification period of the
> associated host definition.  This doesn't seem to work when a service is
> applied to a hostgroup.
>
> In my configuration files, I define a generic service template of my
> own.  It has no notification period.  I also define a host template for
> each customer which defines the hostgroup and notification period which
> is appropriate for each host.  Finally, I define a service which will
> apply to all hosts within that hostgroup.
>
> When I run "nagios -v", I get warnings that no notification period is given:
> Warning: Service 'root partition' on host 'customer1-samba' has no
> notification time period defined!
>
> I've received some pages from hosts when checks timed out during a
> period when no notications should be sent.
>
> Is this a bug, or am I making some mistake?  Shouldn't the service be
> inheriting the value from the host?  Where would I start looking if it
> were a bug and I wanted to fix it?
>
>
>
> define service{
>         use                             generic-service
>         name                            my-generic-service ; The 'name'
> of this service template
>         notification_period             null            ; Use the
> period from the host
>         register                        0
>         }
>
> define host{
>         name            customer1-linux-server
>         use             my-generic-server
>         hostgroups      my-linux-servers
>         notification_period     my-workhours
>         register        0
>         }
>
> define  service{
>         use                     my-generic-service
>         hostgroup_name          my-linux-servers
>         service_description     root partition
>         check_command           ssh_disk!20%!10%!/
>         }
>
>
> 1: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
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