Contact Group Definition¶
Description¶
A contact group definition is used to group one or more contacts together for the purpose of sending out alert/recovery notifications.
Definition Format:¶
Bold directives are required, while the others are optional.
define contactgroup{ | |
contactgroup_name | contactgroup_name |
alias | alias |
members | contacts |
contactgroup_members | contactgroups |
} |
Example Definition:¶
define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name novell-admins
alias Novell Administrators
members jdoe,rtobert,tzach
}
Directive Descriptions:¶
contactgroup_name
This directive is a short name used to identify the contact group.
alias
This directive is used to define a longer name or description used to identify the contact group.
members
This directive is used to define a list of the short names of contacts that should be included in this group. Multiple contact names should be separated by commas. This directive may be used as an alternative to (or in addition to) using the contactgroups directive in contact definitions.
contactgroup_members
This optional directive can be used to include contacts from other “sub” contact groups in this contact group. Specify a comma-delimited list of short names of other contact groups whose members should be included in this group.