Checking a service on all hosts _except_...

[jeff vier]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 07:41 -0400, Ian Marlier wrote:
> >> I'm wondering whether it's possible to define a hostgroup (say,
> >> "windows-servers") with the non-linux boxes listed, and then define a
> >> service check for all hosts except those.
<snip>
> > define service {
> >    service_description   SSH
> >    host_name             *
> >    hostgroup_name        !windows-servers
> >    check_command         check_ssh
> > }
> > 
> > I think that should work. If it doesn't you can always do it the other
> > way around and create a hostgroup with everything but the
> > windows-servers in them.
> 
> Hmmm....that doesn't seem to work, unfortunately, because that would be a
> very nice solution...
> 
> I know that I can create the hostgroup -- since I have so few machines that
> run windows (and it's a number that's going to get smaller), I'm just hoping
> to avoid having to maintain an "all but 5 machines" type of group...

What version of Nagios are you using?
I don't think the ! syntax came until 2.x
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