Hostgroup tricks?

[Brandon Phelps]

Actually it seems that the "hostgroups" parameter does not support negation.

I would go with Mark's answer instead, as that seems to work fine in my 
tests.

-Brandon


On 11/08/2011 10:42 AM, Brandon Phelps wrote:
> The correct parameter for defining a host's hostgroups is "hostgroups",
> not "hostgroup".
>
> Try:
>
> define host {
> 	...
> 	hostgroups !ping-servers
> }
>
> (Note the pural form, rather than singular)
>
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> On 11/08/2011 09:45 AM, Tim AtLee wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a hostgroup defined as:
>>
>> define hostgroup {
>>
>> hostgroup_name ping-servers
>>
>> alias Pingable hosts
>>
>> members *
>>
>> }
>>
>> I have recently added a host outside our firewall that has ping
>> disabled. I have changed the host’s check_command to be ‘check_tcp!80’
>> so that the host won’t be offline permanently, but I am wondering if
>> there is a way to exclude this host from the ‘ping-servers’ hostgroup in
>> the host definition?
>>
>> Ideally, something like:
>>
>> define host {
>>
>> host_name outsidefirewallhost
>>
>> alias Host outside firewall
>>
>> address some.ip.address
>>
>> use generic-host
>>
>> hostgroup !ping-servers
>>
>> }
>>
>> This generates an error when I test the configuration. The only way I
>> have been able to achieve this is to change the ping-servers hostgroup
>> definition to exclude this individual host (*,!outsidefirewallhost), but
>> I’d rather keep the exclusion define in the host, not in the “blanket rule”.
>>
>> Maybe it’s just me being OCD… but is this possible?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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