Miscellany

Good afternoon,

This is my first post to this list!

I have a suggestion that I think would be beneficial. I was reading the PDF of Ethan Galstad's presentation "Nagios 3.0 and Beyond" from Nagioz Konferenz 2006 (a great document, by the way!). I read the section about "Subgroup references" which talk about how "Host, service and contact groups can now reference other groups for membership."

My question is, if I had something like:

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define contactgroup {
    contactgroup_name       ois
    alias                   OIS Group
    contactgroup_members    ois-techs,ois-admins
    }

define contactgroup {
    contactgroup_name       ois-techs
    alias                   OIS Techs
    }

define contactgroup {
    contactgroup_name       ois-admins
    alias                   OIS Administrators
    }

define contact {
    contact_name            cjones
    contactgroups           ois-techs
    }

define contact {
    contact_name            eespring
    contactgroups           ois-admins
    }

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cjones would be a member of ois-techs. ois-techs would be a member of ois. Would that not mean that cjones would inherently be a member of ois, also? This doesn't seem to be the case (unless my configuration is wrong...). I get an error saying 'ois' has no members.

My suggestion would then be to allow inheritance when using subgroup directives. Inheritance is easily one of the most powerful aspects of Nagios, and it seems like something like this would make that strength even greater.

Thank you,

- Chris