Excluding hosts from hostgroups?

[jeff vier]

Funny.  Reading back over the thread, I realized I was misreading it
this whole time to mean what you just explained below (I guess my brain
wanted it to work "the right way", too :))

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:04, Joe Rhett wrote:
> Hm.  My mind rebels against this notion because it doesn't really make
> sense.  Either a hostgroup has a host or it doesn't.  There is no half way.
> 
> BUT, I could see being useful on a service:
> 
> service ssh {
> 	hostgroup			webservers
> 	exclude_hosts		nossh-1,nossh-2
> 
> 	-or-
> 
> service ping {
> 	host				*
> 	exclude_hosts		noping-1,noping-2
> 
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:31:43AM -0500, Alex Moundalexis wrote:
> > I could set up host checks, except that it isn't as practical with the 
> > quantity of nodes. As well, there are other service checks that must be 
> > run on the entire host group. These rogue (and blatantly irritating) 
> > machines would be a handful of nodes among dozens that would be omitted 
> > from a particular check.
> > 
> > I see it as additional granularity.
> > 
> > I'll make it work, regardless. Was just curious if the idea had been 
> > proposed before.
> > 
> > - A
> > 
> > McKeever Chris wrote:
> > 
> > >On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:12 , Alex Moundalexis <alexm at dctd.saic.com> sent:
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > >>Is there any undocumented (or perhaps documented that I missed) feature 
> > >>that allows the exclusion of several hosts from a hostgroup? Somethine 
> > >>like this?
> > >>
> > >>hostgroup_name   linux,sun
> > >>exclude_hosts      nossh-1,nossh-2,etc
> > >>
> > >>Suppose I run a service check on SSH, for my linux and sun hostgroups, 
> > >>since 99% of them run SSH. 3 servers don't run SSH, and so I get 
> > >>constant failures. The obvious solution would be to redefine those three 
> > >>hosts into their own group, but I was wondering if something like this 
> > >>existed, or whether it would be considered in the future.
> > >>
> > >>   
> > >>
> > >
> > >I am a bit confused..isnt hard though
> > >could you not set up host service checks rather than group checks?
> > >or like you said, just exclude those machines from the group
> > >adding a machine to a group that you then want to exclude it from is a bit 
> > >confusing.
> > >
> > >
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