Hostgroup tricks?

[Axel Rosenski]

Hi Tim, 

I don't have a direct reply, but perhaps a hint in another direction to solve 
your problem.
Personally, I don't like negations and I don't recommend them.

I left the hostgroup empty and assigned all hostgroups in the host definition. 
This looks like 

define hostgroup{
   hostgroup_name                   hgrp-icmp
   alias                            ICMP
}

define host{
   use                              tpl-host-linux
   host_name                        127.0.0.1
   alias                            Nagios
   address                          127.0.0.1
   hostgroups                       +hgrp-icmp
}

Nagios will parse your config and will add this host to this hostgroup.

Perhaps this can help you 
Axel 

Am Dienstag 08 November 2011, 15:45:58 schrieb 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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