Excluding a hostgroup from a service check

[Gary Every]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Sean McAfee <
smcafee at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:

> 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
>
Sean is right. Otherwise, you're REDEFINING the hostgroup_name directive.
-- 
Gary Every
"Pay it Forward!"
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