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Thanks. I did end up creating a new hostgroup and added the hostgroup to the specific checks.

Finally found Nagios documentation for using ! to exclude hosts.

Nagios 3
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ricks.html

Nagios 4:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ricks.html

Documentation for excluding a host for Nagios XI can be found and it uses a WebUI, but finding Nagios documentation for excluding a host in Nagios Core doesn't seem to exist. However, searching there are many forum posts similar to these for excluding a host in a service check. https://serverfault.c...

I'm adding and configuring a couple of new systems and have them in the respective groups. The problem I am having is that I am trying to exclude the host from some of the checks. We don't use any of the escalations host, service or otherwise. From my past experience with managing Nagios and forum p...