My problem, I am trying to send a down and recovery message to a different contact group than what is defined in host definition. Also I want to send only one email to the new contact group. In the example below host A has contact group C defined. However I want send my notification to contact group D. Thanks I have a host definiton like define host { host_name A hostgroups X alias A address A contact_groups C check_period 24x7 check_interval 15 retry_interval 3 max_check_attempts 3 notification_period extended notification_interval 30 notification_options d,r,f notifications_enabled 1 check_command check-host-alive } I have a host escalation definition define hostescalation{ hostgroup_name X contact_groups D first_notification -1 last_notification 1 notification_interval 0 escalation_period 24x7 escalation_options d,r } <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.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;"> Please always respond on list. More below. <div class="im"> On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:56 PM, shadih rahman wrote: >> It has been stated that one can send all notification send to a >> different email address by using negative value for parameter. I >> just wanted to know would the following setup work? please advise >> on this. >> </div><div class="im">> It has been mentioned here. Please advise on this. Thanks > > <a href="http://ideas.nagios.org/akira/dtd/12252-3955" target="_blank">http://ideas.nagios.org/akira/dtd/12252-3955</a> </div>I'm not sure how you interpreted that to mean to put a '-1' for first_notification or even how it relates to your post. Your interpretation will not work AFAIK. The post you reference is about limiting the maximum number of notifications sent to a contact. Your original question appears to be asking about how to send all notifications to 'an email address'. They appear to be opposite problem statements. Please restate your question, being as clear as you can about what you're trying to accomplish. For example, does 'all notifications' mean all notifications nagios would normally send for a specific service or a notification for every single non-OK service check? Does it mean all notifications for any host or service should all go to an arbitrary e-mail address? Does 'to an e-mail address' mean to a defined contact who is already in a contactgroup for that service or some other address? On the face of it, it seems to me you might just need to define a new contact and associate them with the host/service they should receive notifications about. P.S. I don't use escalations so be sure to respond to the list so that you expose your question to people who are more familiar with them, should escalations end up being what you need. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Cordially, Shadhin Rahman