Contacts and notifications - services

[Ugo Bellavance]

Mathieu Gagné a écrit :
> 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?

Because the load service is defined for all my linux servers.  If I 
remove sysadmin from the "load" service definition, I won't receive 
notifications for my proxy server, my backup server, etc...

I hope I won't have to duplicate all of my common tests...

Thanks,

Ugo


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