Contacts and notifications - services

[Mathieu Gagné]

Hi,

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	We've been using nagios for a long while, but only needed one group. 
> However, we now want to add a "DBA" contact group, so that the database 
> administrators get notfications by e-mail if something goes wrong, but 
> only on database servers.
> 
> 	I've created the contacts, the contactgroup (dbas), and added 'dbas' in 
> the host definitions of the database servers, but the dbas don't get any 
> notifications when there is a service problem with a DB server.  I 
> looked at my services and all of them are configured with 'sysadmins' as 
> contact_groups.  The problem is that many of my tests are done on many 
> servers, including DB and non-DB servers.  For example, I check the load 
> average on all my servers, but I only want the DBAs to receive e-mails 
> when the load is too high on a database server, not on all.
> 
> Running Nagios 2.12.  Will consider upgrading to 3.x if needed.

Why don't you add the contactgroup "dbas" and remove "sysadmins" from 
the "load" service definition for all database servers?

--
Mathieu

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