How do I 'except' or 'negate' a regex host_name in a service definition?

[jeff vier]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:19 -0500, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> In message <1130772078.25677.10.camel at chi101100.int.tt.local>,
> jeff vier writes:
> >On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 01:59 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> >> > I want to split off a group of similarly named hosts to a separate
> >> > service from a more global check.
> >> > Here's the "normal" (working) regex line:
> >> > host_name                       ^chi-[a-z0-9]*-sim-[0-9]$
> >> > Now...how do I define "not those" in the associated global check?
> Maybe something like:
> 
> define hostgroup{
>   name 		my_filter_group
>   alias		mfg
>   members	{^chi-[a-z0-9]*-sim-[0-9]$}
> }
> Then in the services definition use
> 
> define service {
>   hostgroup_name !my_filter_group
>   host_name      <some regexp matching all hosts>
>   ...
>   }

Ah, thanks.

I was too focused on doing it the "exciting" way, I failed to think of a
more normal way.

> Sadly you will end up seeing the hostgroup in the CGI, but.

Not a problem...I can sell it as a feature :)
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