Thanks Patrick, I'm laid out with the flu but I'll try that next week.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Morris, Patrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.morris@hp.com">patrick.morris@hp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Guy!<br>
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<div class="h5"><br>On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Guy Waugh wrote:<br><br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> I'm trying to configure nagios 3.0.6 so that I can add contact groups to a host by adding a host template to the host definition.<br>
><br>> I have one host template called 'unix-host' that I'm using to aggregate the Unix Team contacts into a template. I have another host template called 'oncall-host' that I'm using to represent people on call 24x7. If a host is critical enough that the on-call people should be alerted if it goes down, I want to be able to add the 'oncall-host' host template as a template for the critical host, have the 'unix-host' host template as another template for the host, and have nagios alert both the people on call and the Unix Team admins if the host goes down. The on-call people should be alerted by SMS and email every 5 minutes, but the Unix Team admins are should only be alerted by email every 10 minutes.<br>
><br>> I have an email server called 'doris' that is currently down, and is configured as specified below. What's happening is that the on-call people are being alerted by SMS and email every 10 minutes (which is as it should be), but the Unix Team admins aren't being alerted at all. If I remove the 'oncall-host' template from the host definition, the Unix Team admins are alerted by email as they should be.<br>
><br>> Can anyone suggest how I might get the alerting working, and still be able to just add the 'oncall-host' template as a template for a critical host? Perhaps it would be better to do this with hostgroups?<br>
><br>> Here are all my definitions... sorry if it's a bit convoluted:<br>><br>> Here's the host definition for the host in question:<br>> define host {<br>> host_name doris<br>
> alias doris email server<br>> address 192.168.2.25<br>> parents sw-l3-mail<br>> use oncall-host,unix-host<br>
> register 1<br>> }<br>><br>> 'unix-host' host template:<br>> define host {<br>> name unix-host<br>> alias Unix Team host template<br>
> use generic-host<br>> contact_groups +unix-admin<br>> register 0<br>> }<br>><br>> 'oncall-host' host template:<br>
> define host {<br>> name oncall-host<br>> alias Host template for critical hosts<br>> use generic-host<br>
> contact_groups oncall-primary<br>> notification_interval 5<br>> register 0<br>> }<br><br></div></div>Adding a "+" before "oncall-primary" in oncall-host to specify that it<br>
should be added to the list of contacts, rather than to replace it<br>completely, should give you what you want.<br></blockquote></div><br>