On Mar 26, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Tore L?n?y wrote: > I've zeroed out the values for contacts and contactgroups, which > should effectivly hide this service unless cgi.cfg tells otherwise > for that user. > > But, any user is able to view this service, why? > > Ive tried to add myself to the contacts line and remove the > contact_groups, so it would look like this: > contacts tore > # contact_groups > > But this still doesnt work, are regular operators are still able to > view the service, why? Operators are members of a "operators" group, > which is a contactgroup for all hosts. << <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html#implied_inheritance" target="_blank">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html#implied_inheritance</a> << << -- << Marc Hey Marc, Thanks for the info, much appriciated. However, I cannot seem to understand why all my users can view the service when the contacts and contact_groups have no entries. As far as I understand the document in question, thoose values are only inherited from the host when thoose values arn't defined in the service object (in the cfg file). I tried to create a "no-contactgroup" which has no members: define contactgroup { contactgroup_name no-contactgroup alias Group with none-existing user } And the service: define service { host_name XXX service_description XXX check_period 24x7 check_command check_nrpe!XXX contact_groups no-contactgroup notification_period 18x7 initial_state o []... } And the host: define host { host_name XXX alias XXX address XXX parents XXX2 check_command check-host-alive contact_groups support [...] } Neither the host or the service have a contacts variable defined. Am I missing something? Thanks for the help!