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Werk #3418: Do not send host notifications if a service group is required

Component Notifications
Title Do not send host notifications if a service group is required
Date Apr 20, 2016
Level Prominent Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required
Checkmk versions & editions
1.4.0i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.2.8b12 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

If you set a match condition on the service groups then for host notifications this condition was ignored. But a host cannot be in any service group so now if you use this condition then the rule will never match for host notifications. This should be the way that you expect this.

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