Nagios Support Forum

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

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.

okay, thanks for the information.

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.

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