Exception to services defined for all hosts

[Hari Sekhon]

Mohr James wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I have a couple of services that I have defined for all hosts with
> "host_name  *". However, there are a couple of hosts which have
> different notification periods. So, I was wondering if there was anyway
> of defining exceptions. I see that in Nagios 3 you can assign a
> hostgroup_name to a service. This would definitely save a lot of work,
> but the case where we have 100 nodes and only two exceptions, it still
> seems to be a fair bit of work. So I would still like to be able to
> define exceptions. Is that possible? Any info is appreciated
It's not documented but you can use hostgroups in Nagios 2.X, I do.

You can usually try to do something like

host_name !hostname1, !hostname2 etc...

This works when using a hostgroup_name in the service definition but I 
haven't tried it with things like *...

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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