How do I 'except' or 'negate' a regex host_name in a service definition?

[Andreas Ericsson]

jeff vier wrote:
> I want to split off a group of similarly named hosts to a separate
> service from a more global check.
> 
> Here's the "normal" (working) regex line:
> host_name                       ^chi-[a-z0-9]*-sim-[0-9]$
> 
> Now...how do I define "not those" in the associated global check?
> 
> I've tried the usual '!' before the host_name regex string.


This only matches a single char.


> I've tried !(regex).

This matches the first char of the pattern. Tha pattern in this case is 
regex, unless you're using extended regular expressions..

> I've tried dropping the ^$ and appending a !.


Is this a make rule for dependencies?

> I can't use a negated regex, because then I'd be grabbing all sorts of
> hosts I don't want in there (there are additional hostgroup_name
> definitions in the service def.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> This is in Nagios 2.0b4, if that matters.
>

It does.

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