Streamline Alerts/Notifications for user group

[Martin Melin]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Juki <juki.emma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm running Nagios-3.2.0 with plugins-1.4.14 on an openSuSE 11.0 platform.
> I have setup both e-mail and sms notifications for different groups of users
> based on the instructions here;
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-opensuse.html
>
> I would like to be able to send host DOWN *only* notifications/alerts to a
> particular user group. In other words, I would like that user group to
> receive alerts ONLY when a host goes DOWN
> and no other alerts/notifications whatsoever. I have looked at on-call
> rotations but that doesn't seem to suite my need.
>
> Has anyone got suggestions on how to implement this?

If these users should never get anything else than DOWN notifications,
use service_notification_options and host_notification_options in the
contact definition.

You could also do this with escalations, but it sounds like the above
will work for you?

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