Hi, I think you have to do that work, but using template services should help you to write the contactgroups only once in service.cfg. Template services are the only way to make your whole configuration clean an simple without writing the same thing twice. Julien. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Melanie Pfefer <<a href="mailto:melanie_pfefer@yahoo.co.uk">melanie_pfefer@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hello I created 2 contactgroups and thought that by affecting each hostgroup to a contactgroup, the alerts that belong to a host will go according to the contactgroup value that was defined in the hostgroup definition. However, I saw also that services has hostgroup value. So I had to redo the work: Affect a contactgroup to each service. Any alternative than doing this redundant work? thanks ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! For Good helps you make a difference <a href="http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/" target="_blank">http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone" target="_blank">http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>