notification by host

[Max]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Dong Chen <dchen at bis.doc.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have quite a few servers. In nagios config, each server inherites from multiple hostgroup, such as hardware, os, applications. Right now, different class of alerts, e.g. harddrive alerts, from all the machines are sending to the same contact person. What would be an easiest way to modify the current configuration that all the alerts for a particular machine is (also) send to one person?
>
> For example, we have
> host 1 running service A, service B, service C
> host 2 running service A, service B, service C
> host 3 running service A, service B, service C
> All the alerts from host 1,2,3  for service A go to John;
> alerts from host 1,2,3 for service B go to Jack;
> ...
> Now, I would want all the alert for service A,B,C from host also be sent to Joe.

I'd recommend you read about and use escalations to do notifications
for custom groups of hosts and services:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/escalations.html

We use escalations for just this purpose as we have a number of
service definitions that are associated with host groups that our end
users cannot modify, while they can modify/create/delete their own
escalation definitions.  The one thing to keep in mind if you go the
escalation route is that OK state escalations need to be separate
escalation definitions with a last notification of 1 so that the OK is
only sent out one time.

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