FW: Monitoring service for every machine in hostgroupEXCEPT ONE

[Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)]

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net On Behalf Of Kelly
Jones
Sent: 23 July 2007 02:55

I did not see any reply to this message, so here is my effort:

> I've created a hostgroup of 20 machines, and want to monitor 10
> services on each machine (easy). I now want to monitor an 11th service
> on 19 of the 20 machines. What's the best way to do this?
>
> Two ugly ways I don't like:
>
> % Create a separate hostgroup for the 19 machines I do want to
monitor.
>
> % Monitor the service on all 20 machines, but schedule infinite
> downtime for the service on the 20th machine.
>
> Is there a better way?

Yes.  In the configuration for the service, use an entry like this:

define service{
	use			generic-service	# From a template
or add other options
	hostgroup_name	mygroup		# Group of 20 machines
	hosts			!nothisone		# Machine not to
be tested (note the !)
	contact_groups	us			# 
}

Jonathan Wheeler
e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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