excluding a host - possible or not?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

I have several hosts with the same services (connectivity, SSH, Samba, 
HTTP...).

I have it configured like below - this way I edit hosts (used in all 
services) only in "generic-service":

define service {
         name        generic-service
	host_name   server*, web*, router1, no-web
(...)


define service {
         use                             generic-service
         service_description             Connectivity
(...)


define service {
         use                             generic-service
         service_description             HTTP
# host_name	!no_web, \!no-web # <- don't work
(...)


Now, one server doesn't have a web server running, so a HTTP check makes 
an error. I'd like to exclude host "no-web" from HTTP service.

Looking through the mailing list archive, I see that excluding a host 
was a feature that was frequently asked for, and that putting a "!" in 
front of the host name should work in nagios 2.x.
For me, unfortunately - it doesn't work - nagios takes an exclamation 
mark as a part of the host's name:

Error: Could not find any host matching '!no-web'

or:

Error: Could not find any host matching '\!no-web'



How can I exclude a host?


I have nagios 2.5.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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