Bug or by design? services inheriting contacts from host

[Matt Nelson]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Matt Nelson <matt at frozenatom.com> wrote:

> 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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>
Looking into this some more this is going to be a real PITA to migrate our
current configuration to handle this.  If we migrate this will require us to
maintain contacts in the hosts and the services both.  How do others handle
contacts?  Do you maintain them on the Host and Service level?

Should I submit a bug?  To re-explain the problem incase I was unclear
before:
We notify contact_group NOC for everything.  For certain services we want to
notify ie: contact_group MARKETING, but also have it go to NOC.  Rather then
letting NOC be the contact_group on the host, and then having the service
have the contact_group be "MARKETING, NOC"  I would think that I should be
able to just put "+MARKETING", I don't think that this should be an issue.
Should this be something that I should report as a bug/feature?


This said, does anyone know how to get around this behavior?
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