<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi guys,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I am building a nagios setup that is going to be monitoring a number of different clients who have varying levels of support (all have 9am-6pm and then others have 8am as well, then there are 4 time periods that include the evenings and weekends which can be purchased separately.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I am centralising my Nagios setup as much as possible and currently each type of service (exchange 2003, IIS, Active Directory, SQL etc) are all assigned to a hostgroup and then the hosts are made a member of the hostgroup and any extra checks are added into the client config files as necessary. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> What I am trying to work out is the best way to assign the relevant time periods to each host. Am I right in understanding that if I create a template host and service for each timeperiod that I can’t assign these two templates to the same host/service as one will overwrite the other?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Is the best way to approach this to define a template for hosts/servers for each client and setup the notifications in here? Is it also possible to have the notification do more than just email/sms - I would potentially like the notification to log a call in our CMS the first time it notices the host is down and then after this just send notifications.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> All thoughts/comments appreciated.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Regards,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Matt White<o:p></o:p> [ matt@matthewjwhite.co.uk ]<o:p></o:p> [ http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk ]<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body>  WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Matt White accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.Matt White therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. Warning: Although Matt White has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, Matt White cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. </html>