Hi Layne, regarding the config you can configure contacts in stead of complete groups, but the keyword is contacts not contact as in your example :-) contacts: This is a list of the short names of the <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#contact">contacts</a> that should be notified whenever there are problems (or recoveries) with this host. Multiple contacts should be separated by commas. Useful if you want notifications to go to just a few people and don't want to configure <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#contactgroup">contact groups</a>. You must specify at least one contact or contact group in each host definition. Regards, Dennis On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:54:35 -0500, Layne Meier <lmeier@ajc.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010ff; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; width: 100%;">I have a question for anyone that can answer this for me. From the documentation, in configuring a host, this is the example given: <div> </div> <div> <pre>define host{ host_name bogus-router alias Bogus Router #1 address 192.168.1.254 parents server-backbone check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 5 check_period 24x7 process_perf_data 0 retain_nonstatus_information 0 contact_groups router-admins notification_interval 30 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,u,r }</pre> <pre>In place of the contact_groups as being defined as router-admins, can you put the name of an actual person there (from the contacts.cfg) ie;</pre> <pre><pre>define host{ host_name bogus-router alias Bogus Router #1 address 192.168.1.254 parents server-backbone check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 5 check_period 24x7 process_perf_data 0 retain_nonstatus_information 0 contact_groups lmeier notification_interval 30 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,u,r }</pre> </pre> <pre>Or is there a different command that needs to go there:</pre> <pre><pre>define host{ host_name bogus-router alias Bogus Router #1 address 192.168.1.254 parents server-backbone check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 5 check_period 24x7 process_perf_data 0 retain_nonstatus_information 0 contact lmeier notification_interval 30 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,u,r }</pre> </pre> <pre> </pre> <pre> </pre> <pre>Thank you,</pre> <pre>Layne Meier</pre> <pre>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</pre> <pre> </pre> </div> </blockquote>