Q: How to exclude a host from a service that is in a hostgrp

[jrmartin]

Hello,
Nagios R1.7 prebuilt VM.

I have a service defined that I have applied to a hostgroup and it is working properly.

However, there are a few hosts that are in the hostgroup that I need to exclude from the service check.

Is it possible to exclude a host from a service check that has been defined in a hostgroup?

I read you can !hostname in the services .cfg file, but I checked mine and it states its autogenerated by QL and will be overwritten.

Is this possible in XI?
Thanks,
Jeff

[mguthrie]

Unfortunately I don't think it is at the moment. I came across this issue on an import in that the CCM just treated '!hostname' as a new host instead of an exclusion. It could be done by manually maintaining a config in the /usr/local/nagios/etc/static directory. The files in this directory are not managed by the Core Config Manager and can be manually edited.

[jrmartin]

okay, thanks for the information.

[Jdawg2002]

Is this possible yet in Nagios XI? I need to exclude several hosts from a service that are in a hostgroup assigned to that service. This is possible in the NagioSQL gui and also in Nagios core files by adding a "!" before the name in the service config definition.

Thanks.

[scottwilkerson]

This is not possible at this time without doing what mguthrie mentioned above