hey kelly ... i've just done the following in the service entry: define service{ hostgroup_name your_20_server_group host_name !not_this_one_server service_description the_service etc etc ... being able to negate hosts seems to work fine in version 2.x (not sure about 1 or 3) august <div>On 7/23/07, Kelly Jones <<a href="mailto:kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com">kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I've created a hostgroup of 20 machines, and want to monitor 10 services on each machine (easy). I now want to monitor an 11th service on 19 of the 20 machines. What's the best way to do this? Two ugly ways I don't like: % Create a separate hostgroup for the 19 machines I do want to monitor. % Monitor the service on all 20 machines, but schedule infinite downtime for the service on the 20th machine. Is there a better way? Semi-related questions: % Can I create an "invisible" hostgroup? One that nagios can use but doesn't show up on the web interface? % When I mark a service down, I don't get emails about it (that's good), but it still shows as red on the web interface? How can I fix this? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> <a href="http://get.splunk.com/">http://get.splunk.com/</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users </a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>