Checking a service on all hosts _except_...

[Marlier, Ian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeff vier [mailto:boinger at tradingtechnologies.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:59 AM
> To: Marlier, Ian
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Checking a service on all hosts
_except_...
> 
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 07:41 -0400, Ian Marlier wrote:
> > >> I'm wondering whether it's possible to define a hostgroup (say,
> > >> "windows-servers") with the non-linux boxes listed, and then
define a
> > >> service check for all hosts except those.
> <snip>
> > > define service {
> > >    service_description   SSH
> > >    host_name             *
> > >    hostgroup_name        !windows-servers
> > >    check_command         check_ssh
> > > }
> > >
> > > I think that should work. If it doesn't you can always do it the
other
> > > way around and create a hostgroup with everything but the
> > > windows-servers in them.
> >
> > Hmmm....that doesn't seem to work, unfortunately, because that would
be
> a
> > very nice solution...
> >
> > I know that I can create the hostgroup -- since I have so few
machines
> that
> > run windows (and it's a number that's going to get smaller), I'm
just
> hoping
> > to avoid having to maintain an "all but 5 machines" type of group...
> 
> What version of Nagios are you using?
> I don't think the ! syntax came until 2.x

Yup....time to upgrade, I think....

Fun!


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