Nagios Support Forum

Hi!
Yeah, I'm using older version 3.0.6. of Nagios on SLES 11 bundled, but I'm wondering is a option to set monitoring for devices with making exception for excluding some devices for counting on "Tactical Monitoring Overview" page? I mean, I have some devices which is managed, but appear infrequently on site, mostly via VPN-access, like notebooks. I do want to keep eye on these (when appear), but don't want to have to mess up with everyday monitoring. I see here is a option with host description to always have some devices up for Nagios (check_command to leave empty), but this is not I'm looking for.
Any hints/ideas?
More thanks, Alar.

Other than using a dummy check to always report "ok", you have just a few options.
1. Edit the cgi source to purposely exclude said hosts from the cgi output. This will be difficult, hard to support, and generally problematic.
2. Put the intermittent hosts on a custom subnet and then create a custom script to scan the subnet every couple of minutes and then generate a config (and also restarting nagios) for it. When it is no longer found in the scan, remove the config.