Stuck... Object Tricks turning into Object Failures...

[John Cavanaugh]

Max,

Thanks for the suggestion, I had considered using escalations but I believe
I then lose the ability to use escalations for what they were originally
intended for, that of notifying second/third level support or managers.   Or
do you have a way that you still accomplish that with this type of config??

I may need to just suck it up and replicate the services per host group.  I
hate to do it that way, but unless there is another way to sort of have a
"mixin style" inheritance where the service can inherit details from the
host/hostgroup Im not sure I have any other options...

PS.   Love the "perldork" email handle.  ;-)

--
John Cavanaugh

-----Original Message-----
From: max.schubert at gmail.com [mailto:max.schubert at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Max
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 10:35 AM
To: Cavanaugh, John P (CSL - Client Software Lab)
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Stuck... Object Tricks turning into Object
Failures...

John,

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:11 PM, John Cavanaugh<cavanaughwww at hp.com> wrote:
> Im sure Im missing something here, any ideas on how to put the pieces back
> together for this?

We use host and service escalations to achieve this, just set the
escalation first_notification value to 1 and the escalation will kick
in along with the first service-based notification.

So far the down sides I am seeing of doing this are that escalated
contacts have no way of receiving:
* downtime notices
* flapping notices
* comment notices

If anyone knows a workaround for that limitation, would love to hear it.

So the above methodology works very well for service and host alerts
but not for the other types of alerts Nagios sends out .. I am trying
to figure out how to re-add those other alerts without doing service
copies as I really like (as it sounds like you do) the configuration
efficiency of mapping hosts -> hostsgroups and services to hostgroups.

- Max


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