service descriptions with hostgroup and not host

[Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH]

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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> I'm a big fan of specifying a hostgroup_name in a service description, but
> I've run into a situation where I need to do a service check for all hosts in
> a hostgroup except one.  I was wondering if there was any way to negate a
> host in a group, perhaps something like:
>     host   !evil.host
> or
>     exclude_host  evil.host
> Does anything like this exist?
I don't think so, but I would like something like this also, because
then you could define a standard service like check-host-alive and a
standard service dependecy like

define servicedependency {
host_name                      host
service_description            PING
dependent_service_description  *,!PING
execution_failure_criteria     n
notification_failure_criteria  w,u,c
}

If "!PING" is missing, then nagios complains about circular
dependencies and you have to enter a dependency for every single
service... *arg*


Thanks and Cheers
Nicki




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