Excluding a hostgroup from a service check

[Sean McAfee]

Edward Trochim wrote:

> And a service definition like this. I want to exclude hostgroup5 from  
> this one service definition:
> 
> define service{
>          use					standard-check
>          hostgroup_name		!hostgroup5
>          service_description	Disk Space
> }
> 
> Instead of doing what I want this excludes every hostgroup defined in  
> the template. host1 still gets the service though.
> 
> I am currently running nagios version 3.0.6.
> 
> Is this a bug in nagios or am I misunderstanding the way this should  
> behave?

I believe you're just missing the magic "+" that indicates additive 
inheritance instead of making it override.

Try:

define service{
           use			standard-check
           hostgroup_name	+!hostgroup5
           service_description	Disk Space
}

-- 
Sean McAfee
System Engineer


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