

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:04 , Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> sent:

>Hm.  My mind rebels against this notion because it doesn't really make
>sense.  Either a hostgroup has a host or it doesn't.  There is no half way.
>
>BUT, I could see being useful on a service:
>
>service ssh {
>	hostgroup			webservers
>	exclude_hosts		nossh-1,nossh-2
>
>	-or-
>
>service ping {
>	host				*
>	exclude_hosts		noping-1,noping-2
>

yes, that makes much more sense....I thoughtit a bit odd to exclude something that you just added it to...


>On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:31:43AM -0500, Alex Moundalexis wrote:
>> I could set up host checks, except that it isn't as practical with the 
>> quantity of nodes. As well, there are other service checks that must be 
>> run on the entire host group. These rogue (and blatantly irritating) 
>> machines would be a handful of nodes among dozens that would be omitted 
>> from a particular check.
>> 
>> I see it as additional granularity.
>> 
>> I'll make it work, regardless. Was just curious if the idea had been 
>> proposed before.
>> 
>> - A
>> 
>> McKeever Chris wrote:
>> 
>> >On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:12 , Alex Moundalexis alexm@dctd.saic.com> sent:
>> >
>> > 
>> >
>> >>Is there any undocumented (or perhaps documented that I missed) feature 
>> >>that allows the exclusion of several hosts from a hostgroup? Somethine 
>> >>like this?
>> >>
>> >>hostgroup_name   linux,sun
>> >>exclude_hosts      nossh-1,nossh-2,etc
>> >>
>> >>Suppose I run a service check on SSH, for my linux and sun hostgroups, 
>> >>since 99% of them run SSH. 3 servers don't run SSH, and so I get 
>> >>constant failures. The obvious solution would be to redefine those three 
>> >>hosts into their own group, but I was wondering if something like this 
>> >>existed, or whether it would be considered in the future.
>> >>
>> >>   
>> >>
>> >
>> >I am a bit confused..isnt hard though
>> >could you not set up host service checks rather than group checks?
>> >or like you said, just exclude those machines from the group
>> >adding a machine to a group that you then want to exclude it from is a bit 
>> >confusing.
>> >
>> >
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