Contact groups in distributed monitoring

Owned by Anastasios Thomaidis
Last updated: Oct 09, 2024 by Matthew Hierholzer
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In a distributed setup, you can use the contact groups from the remote site to see only certain things provided by this contact group on the central viewer site. 

LAST TESTED ON CHECKMK 2.3.0P1

Table of Contents

You can ignore this how-to if you have a distributed setup where you enable WATO and manage the contact groups central.

Getting Started

Background information regarding this subject is available on our:


Step-by-step guide

  1. Config on the remote site

    1. Create a contact group on the remote site. 

      Setup → Users → Contact Groups → Add Group
      Screenshot of contract groups. One listed as group01 with cmkadmin as a member.


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    2. Assign hosts and services to this contact group.


      For Hosts

      Setup → Hosts → Host monitoring Rules → Assignment of hosts to contact groups → Add rule
      Sreenshot of assignement of hosts to contact groups. Conditions listed as host name is mysite01.


      For Services

      Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules → Assignment of services to contact groups → Add rule


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    3. Assign the contact group to the user.

      Setup → Users → Edit User
      Sreenshot of edit user cmkadmin. Contact group 01 enabled within contact groups.

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  2. Config on the central site


    1. Setup → Users → Edit User

      Sreenshot of edit user cmkadmin. Visibility of host set to only show hosts and services the user is a contact for.

    2. If you now log in to the central viewer site, you will only see the hosts/services you're a member of.

      Sreenshot of edit user cmkadmin. Visibility of host set to only show hosts and services the user is a contact for.