Hi, can you tell me how to disabling object inheritance completely?
the services inherit the contact_groups defined in host
thanks in advance!
On 09/27/2012 02:37 PM, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:08 PM
>> To: Nagios Users List
>> Cc: Frost, Mark {BIS}
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using "contacts" in host definition -- Bug ?
>
>> On 09/26/2012 09:25 AM, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote:
>>> I believe this is a "feature" introduced in 3.3 or thereabouts. I've
>>> always found it very irritating and wish there was some way to turn
>>> off inheriting host contacts/contactgroups to services as it's never
>>> what I want.
>>>
>
>> It's a half misfeature. The intention was (and is) that services with no
>> contactgroups OR contacts should inherit the ones from the host, but it
>> was coded up so that if the service had contactgroups (but not contacts)
>> it would inherit contacts (but not contactgroups) from the host. The
same
>> applied when the service had contacts but no contactgroups and the host
>> had contactgroups.
>
>> In 4.0 this is fixed so only services with neither contacts nor contact-
>> groups inherit them from the host.
>
>> --
>> Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se
>
> I still see that as a misfeature. I would rather have the preflight
> check tell me there's an error because I forgot to define contacts
> for the service than for it to assume that what I want is anything to
> be inherited from a host definition. I'd be OK if that were the default
> behavior and was configurable, but I'd be the first to disable that
> in nagios.cfg if it were a configurable preference. Yeah, I know,
> patches gleefully accepted :-).
>
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