Patrick, you legend, it worked! Thanks a bunch... <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Morris, Patrick <<a href="mailto:patrick.morris@hp.com">patrick.morris@hp.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Guy! <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Guy Waugh wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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? > > Here are all my definitions... sorry if it's a bit convoluted: > > Here's the host definition for the host in question: > define host { > host_name doris > alias doris email server > address 192.168.2.25 > parents sw-l3-mail > use oncall-host,unix-host > register 1 > } > > 'unix-host' host template: > define host { > name unix-host > alias Unix Team host template > use generic-host > contact_groups +unix-admin > register 0 > } > > 'oncall-host' host template: > define host { > name oncall-host > alias Host template for critical hosts > use generic-host > contact_groups oncall-primary > notification_interval 5 > register 0 > } </div></div>Adding a "+" before "oncall-primary" in oncall-host to specify that it should be added to the list of contacts, rather than to replace it completely, should give you what you want. </blockquote></div>