Bug or by design? services inheriting contacts from host

[Matt Nelson]

Thanks Marc. I guess I need to re-factor my configuration.  I appreciate you
taking a minute to respond.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Matt Nelson wrote:
>
> > Service:
> >
> > define service{
> >     use                     noncritical-service
> >     host_name               myHost
> >     service_description     myMonitor
> >     check_command           bla bla bla
> >     contact_groups          +myGroup2
> > }
> >
> >
> > Host:
> >
> > define host {
> >                  use                     default
> >                  host_name               myHost
> >                  alias                   myHost
> >                  address                 myHost.domain
> >          contact_groups      myGroup1
> >                 }
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The problem that I am seeing is that since we have a
> > "contact_groups" defined in the service it is not taking the
> > myGroup1 from the host and adding the myGroup2 to that.  So the
> > result is that I am getting notifications send to myGroup2, but not
> > myGroup1 AND myGroup2 and I am expecting.
>
> My reading of the documentation is that the host->service inheritance
> you are expecting only works if contact_groups isn't specified in the
> service. Once you define it, in any way, the implied inheritance is no
> longer valid.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html ->
> Implied Inheritance
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
>
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