FW: wild cards with exceptions?

[Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)]

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users On Behalf Of dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Sent: 08 May 2007 16:12

> I'm trying to streamline my nagios config using wildcards.
> Unfortunately, not all services I wish to define via wildcard
> follows a clean set of rules. Is it possible to define a service
> with a host list of something like *,!linux1, !linux2

> I suspect the answer is no and what I'd need to do is use
> a combination of hostgroups and hosts eg
> define service {
> hostgroup  unix, ultrix, sco
> service_description ....
> }
> define service {
> host_name host1, host2, host3, host4
> ...
> }
>
> Anyone find a way around this?

I have found that within the same service definition I can use both
hostgroup and host_name records, specifically I have definitions like:

define service {
service_description ....
hostgroup  unix, ultrix, sco
host_name !host1, !host2, !host3, etc

Jonathan Wheeler
e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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