Hostgroup tricks?

[Tim AtLee]

Hello

I have a hostgroup defined as:
define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name          ping-servers
        alias                   Pingable hosts
        members                 *
}

I have recently added a host outside our firewall that has ping disabled.  I have changed the host's check_command to be 'check_tcp!80' so that the host won't be offline permanently, but I am wondering if there is a way to exclude this host from the 'ping-servers' hostgroup in the host definition?

Ideally, something like:
define host {
        host_name       outsidefirewallhost
        alias           Host outside firewall
        address         some.ip.address
        use             generic-host

        hostgroup    !ping-servers
}

This generates an error when I test the configuration.  The only way I have been able to achieve this is to change the ping-servers hostgroup definition to exclude this individual host (*,!outsidefirewallhost), but I'd rather keep the exclusion define in the host, not in the "blanket rule".

Maybe it's just me being OCD...  but is this possible?

Thanks,

Tim
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