Nagios + More granular contact groups

bell.colin · 03-02-2006, 11:26 PM

Is there any way to define Hosts from multiple hostgroups so certain contactgroups get a limited view of certain hosts (and their services) from several hostgroups but not all hosts from these hostgroups?

Example:

hostgroup: all-switches
switch1 (ping)
switch2 (ping)
switch3 (ping)

hostgroup: all-web-servers
web01 (ping, http)
web02 (ping, http)
web03 (ping, http)

hostgroup: all-routers
router1 (ping)
router2 (ping)
router3 (ping)

I would like a contact group to receive all notifications for only some of the hosts (and their services) such as "contactgroup1" would receive all host/service notifications for switch1, router1, and web01 but not anything else from these hostgroups.

I have tried making a new hostgroups and adding the existing hosts to them (example hostgroup: bldg1 contains switch1, router1, and web01) however i can't seem to find a good way to accomplish this without setting up separate nagios servers (or a very complex config with many duplicates) as I keep running into "host/service already defined" errors.

Is there another practical way to accomplish this without having hosts duplicated with different names with the same services defined? (If it's even possible)

I hope this has made since

I would like to find a way to do this without having to have the same host/service defined multiple time. (all running the same check)

mousebubble · 03-03-2006, 08:31 AM

You can specify which contactgroups to send notifications to by each servcie/host definition. For example:

Code:

define service{
         use                             generic-service         ; Name of service template to use
         host_name                       web01
         service_description             PING
         is_volatile                     0
         check_period                    24x7
         max_check_attempts              3
         normal_check_interval           5
         retry_check_interval            1
         contact_groups                  web01-group,switch1-group
         notification_interval           120
         notification_period             24x7
         notification_options            c,r
         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
         }

This makes the config files (especially the services.cfg file) a bit long, but it allows the most control. I would recomend setting up service templates for each "group" of contacts and then applying the templates to the services you want.