The correct parameter for defining a host's hostgroups is "hostgroups",
not "hostgroup".
Try:
define host {
...
hostgroups !ping-servers
}
(Note the pural form, rather than singular)
Brandon Phelps
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On 11/08/2011 09:45 AM, Tim AtLee wrote:
> 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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