Excluding hosts from hostgroups?

[Joe Rhett]

Okay, so who wants to do the patch?

In my mind, this should probably be done by simply pre-loading the disabled
service checks.  No new data structure is required.

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:40:34PM -0600, McKeever Chris wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:04 , Joe Rhett <jrhett at 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 at 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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Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett at Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.


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