Can you not check a certain hostgroup?

[Jim Avery]

2009/4/16 Andrew Bruce <abruce at hope-st.ath.cx>:
> Is it possible, in a service definition to tell the service to not check a
> group of hosts?
>
>
>
> For example, I have a hostgroup that contains some basic checks for every
> Windows server.
>
>
>
> But some of the servers are still on NT, so don't support a particular
> check, and I want to disable it for just these servers.  Can I have a
> hostgroup called WinNT_old with the servers I don't want to run this
> particular check against and then do a service check with the hostgroup like
> (or similar):
>
>
>
> hostgroup_name   Win_All, !WinNT_old

You can indeed do that.  I do something similar myself to check all
Wintel servers, but not those in a group called 'BRONZE'.

Cheers,

Jim

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