Using "contacts" in host definition -- Bug ?

[Nicolás Valera]

Hi, can you tell me how to disabling object inheritance completely?

the services inherit the contact_groups defined in host

thanks in advance!

On 09/27/2012 02:37 PM, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote:
 >
 >
 >> -----Original Message-----
 >> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a... at op5.se]
 >> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:08 PM
 >> To: Nagios Users List
 >> Cc: Frost, Mark {BIS}
 >> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using "contacts" in host definition -- Bug ?
 >
 >> On 09/26/2012 09:25 AM, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote:
 >>> I believe this is a "feature" introduced in 3.3 or thereabouts.  I've
 >>> always found it very irritating and wish there was some way to turn
 >>> off inheriting host contacts/contactgroups to services as it's never
 >>> what I want.
 >>>
 >
 >> It's a half misfeature. The intention was (and is) that services with no
 >> contactgroups OR contacts should inherit the ones from the host, but it
 >> was coded up so that if the service had contactgroups (but not contacts)
 >> it would inherit contacts (but not contactgroups) from the host. The 
same
 >> applied when the service had contacts but no contactgroups and the host
 >> had contactgroups.
 >
 >> In 4.0 this is fixed so only services with neither contacts nor contact-
 >> groups inherit them from the host.
 >
 >> --
 >> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.erics... at op5.se
 >
 > I still see that as a misfeature.   I would rather have the preflight
 > check tell me there's an error because I forgot to define contacts
 > for the service than for it to assume that what I want is anything to
 > be inherited from a host definition.   I'd be OK if that were the default
 > behavior and was configurable, but I'd be the first to disable that
 > in nagios.cfg if it were a configurable preference.  Yeah, I know,
 > patches gleefully accepted :-).
 >



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