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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a hostgroup defined as:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>define hostgroup {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> hostgroup_name ping-servers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> alias Pingable hosts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> members *<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ideally, something like:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>define host {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> host_name outsidefirewallhost<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> alias Host outside firewall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> address some.ip.address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> use generic-host<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> hostgroup !ping-servers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maybe it’s just me being OCD… but is this possible?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tim<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>