Excluding host in hostgroups.cfg

[D.J. Bolderman]

Hi all,

I cannot exclude certain hosts from my hostgroups.cfg. My nagios.cfg shows:

use_regexp_matching=1
use_true_regexp_matching=1

define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name  ping-servers
        alias           Pingable servers
        members         s_sv.*,s_ups.*,s_fw.*,s_rt.*
        }

The hostgroup above works, however when I change it into this:

define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name  ping-servers
        alias           Pingable servers
        members         s_sv.*,s_ups.*,s_fw.*,s_rt.*,!s_sv_mail
        }

It shows : Error: Could not find any host matching '!s_sv_mail'

Host s_sv_mail exists, so it has something to do with the exclamation mark ?

Thanks,
Dick

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