Excluding a hostgroup from a service check

[Edward Trochim]

I have a service template that specifies several host groups and one  
host to check. One of the services that inherits this template should  
not be executed by one of the host groups defined. I read the object  
tricks documentation page and found that I could include a ! before  
the name in a hostgroup_name definition in the service definition to  
exclude that hostgroup from that service. However, when I do that  
nagios excludes all hostgroups from the list from running that service.

That explanation of the problem might be a little thick so here is an  
abbreviated example.

I have a service template like this:

define service{
         name				standard-check
         use					generic-service
         hostgroup_name		hostgroup1, hostgroup2, hostgroup3,\
						hostgroup4, hostgroup5, hostgroup6,\
						hostgroup7
         host_name			host1
         servicegroups		standard_checks
         register				0
}

And a service definition like this. I want to exclude hostgroup5 from  
this one service definition:

define service{
         use					standard-check
         hostgroup_name		!hostgroup5
         service_description	Disk Space
}

Instead of doing what I want this excludes every hostgroup defined in  
the template. host1 still gets the service though.

I am currently running nagios version 3.0.6.

Is this a bug in nagios or am I misunderstanding the way this should  
behave?

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