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abrist wrote:I think what Scott was implying is that you cannot use excludes on the hostgroup object definition, whereas you can on the host definitions.

He might have been implying that, but the documentation he quoted says otherwise.

If you look at the documentation you've linked, it explicitly says that what jessiegto is trying, should work. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that it does; I'm running into the same issue. I haven't tested Nagios 4.0 yet either, but the documentation that says it should work is for 3.0 (I'm running ...