Negating regular expression matching a host_name

[Christian Schneemann]

On Wednesday October 8 2008 02:23:45 pm Oscar Elfving wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I'm currently trying to exclude a range of hosts that do not share
> certain hardware with the rest of the cluster, and I want to exclude
> them by using regular expressions.
> Whenever I try to use the exclamation mark with the star, nagios tells
> me it can't find any matching hosts.
Hi,
did you set "use_regexp_matching" in your nagios.cfg to 1? You have to 
activate this to use regex in your matching (as the name says ;)


Greetings,
	Christian
>
> I'm obviously missing something here, how can I do this in a good way?
>
>
> define service {
>         hostgroup_name                  mailgw-servers
>         # Exceptions
>         host_name                       !mailgwb*
>         service_description         AACRAID controller status
>         check_command                  
> check_nrpe_1arg!check_aacraid_config use                            
> generic-service
>         notification_interval           0
>         }
>
> Also, thank you for a great Nordic Nagios meet in Stockholm in June!
>
> Best regards,
> Oscar Elfving
>
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