Hi Tim, if you want to exclude this host from the ping-servers hostgroup, you should really exclude it from the hostgroup itself, i.e.:
define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name ping-servers alias Pingable hosts members *,!outsidefirewallhost } This should do the trick. Cheers, Giacomo On mar, 2011-11-08 at 07:45 -0700, 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 > > } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null