Hi Justin,
you are not the first person asking this :-) In short: For Nagios 2.x
it is as you say and the only way is to use templates to ease the
configuration. For Nagios 3 the contacts for the services are
inherited from the host.
> More service templates ease the coding a bit,
>
Dependi
>From the documentation it seems that entering a contact or contact group
is required for every service I define. From a practical perspective of
writing a .cfg file, however, this seems to severely complicate the
purpose of assigning a single service to multiple hosts, as a host tends
to be the b
