feature suggestion / can I already do this?

[Furnish, Trever G]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Galstad [mailto:nagios at nagios.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:13 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] feature suggestion / can I 
> already do this?
> 
> 
> A couple of people have requested this feature, so I just added it 
> into the 2.0 code - should be in CVS shortly.  You'll be able exclude 
> hosts, hostgroups, service and servicegroups in various object 
> definitions.  Here's an example...
> 
> define service{
> 	service_description	PING
> 	hostgroup_name			
> windows-boxes,all-linux-servers,!linux-webservers
> 	host_name				
> somehost,!thishost,anotherhost
> 	...
> 	}
> 
> 
> On 28 Jan 2004 at 18:22, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> 
> > I'll admit that since installing 1.0 I've stopped paying very close
> > attention to Nagios development, so if this is already available (in
> > 1.x or 2), please excuse me...
> > 
> > It would be very useful to be able to say "except" when applying
> > services to hostgroups.
> > 
> > For example, I have about 30 DNS servers, all of which I 
> want to apply
> > several services to ... except one.  For that one, I run a different
> > check command.
> > 
> > Because of that ONE host's difference, I have to apply the service
> > check separately to all of the hosts in the group, effectively
> > removing the major management benefit of being able to 
> apply services
> > to hostgroups.  It would be sooo much nicer to simply have 
> one service
> > definition applied to the group, with an exception for that 
> one host,
> > so that I could follow that definition up with another one that
> > applied only to that host.
> > 
> > I realize it's awfully late for 2.0 feature requests, but this seems
> > like a *very* easy thing to code - just add a step that removes
> > exceptions from the list of hosts before applying a given service
> > definition.
> > 
> > If there's already a way to do that, then please tell me and I'll be
> > both suitably chagrined and ecstaticallly happy. :-)
> > 
> > --
> > Trever
> > 
> 
> 
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
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