Using "contacts" in host definition -- Bug ?

[Frost, Mark {BIS}]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae 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.ericsson 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 :-).

Mark

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