Different notifications times for same service on different hosts?

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 28/09/09 12:33 PM, Glyn Astill wrote:
> --- On Mon, 28/9/09, Mark Gius <mgius at createspace.com> wrote:
> 
>> notification_period inherited from the host only applies if
>> you have NO 
>> notification_period defined.  Do you have some master
>> service template 
>> that defines a default notification_period for services (I
>> know we do). 
>>
>> You could use a custom variable attached to the host and
>> then set the 
>> notification period with
>>
>> notification_period $_HOSTCUSTOMNOTIFICATIONPERIOD$
>>
>> or similar.  However, if you'd like to do this sort of
>> thing on a wide 
>> scale I'd reconfigure nagios to use the builtin inheritance
>> rather than 
>> trying to re-implement it using custom object vars
>>
>> -Gius
>>
> 
> Aha, thats it then. notification_period was defined in templates.cfg and after commenting it out it's now getting inherited from the host.

I finally found where theyy define what is inherited from where...
useful tip!

Normally you should be able to undefine inherited options with the
special "null" value. ex:

define service {
  description         blah
  ...
  notification_period null
  use                 service_template
}

- --
Thomas
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