Bug or by design? services inheriting contacts from host

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Matt Nelson wrote:

> 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?

Yes. That's been the standard nagios way of doing it since... forever.

> Should I submit a bug?

Did it work before and is now broken?

> 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?

Sounds like feature-request might be more appropriate. I see it being  
interesting.

--
Marc


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