[Nagios-devel] Nagios 2.0 Host Notifications

[Ethan G. <na...@na...>]

As I proceed on the coding of 2.0, I am planning on nuking hostgroup 
escalation definitions from CVS.  This is happening because hostgroup 
escalations can be emulated with host escalation definitions that use 
a hostgroup_name directive.

My other plan (which I offer up for discussion) is to move the 
contact_groups directive out of hostgroup definitions and into host 
definitions.  With HG escalations going away, leaving default 
notification contacts HG definitions seems a bit odd.  Also, defining 
contact groups in hostgroups has been carried along since the 
beginning days of NetSaint, as I got the idea by looking at how other 
monitoring apps worked (I believe it was mon for this idea).  I think 
its time to clean things up a bit.

Anyway, I think moving the contact_groups directive off to host 
definitions will make things a little clearer when working with host 
escalations.

Thoughts on this?  I'll be making this change if I don't hear any 
"good" reasons why things should stay as they are.




Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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