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Yep, negating specific hosts in both service definition and service_escalations definition worked. That was easy, I should have thought of that from start, thanks for pointing that out.

Oh I see, so, could I either...
remove the hostgroup designation and just specify hosts, or also negate those hosts in the service escalation, and it wont exapnd them?

Thanks Scott.

I thought of doing exactly that, but I wanted to understand if there was a way of being able to accomplish same/similar via adjusting the configs.

I have a service check for rabbitmq that checks the queue length. Its currently failing on a few servers, due to the version of a python module installed on the remote host. However, these servers are due to be upgraded in a couple of weeks, so for now I'd just like to prevent the unknown alerts for...