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Hi all,

I do have a question about Nagios core configuring.
Situtation:
I do have several IBMi nodes running and being monitored by Nagios Core. I configured all common stuff for being monitored for these servers in a common config file where I use a hostgroup to define services to be monitored. This hostgroup contains al my hosts. So the service is checked on al my hosts. That runs fine. For server specific checks I use a server specific config file. I used is this way to keep the work in modifying config files to the less. I tld this all works fine.

Question:
But there is one host on which I don't want to run the service check on because the service is not running on that server.
I was looking for a way to disable this check for only that server.
I know Ik can remove the check from the common config file and put it in all the server specific config files except for the one where it shouldn't run.
Or I can put in de server specific config file of the server where it shouldn't run by disbaling all the checks (passive, active, notificatio and so on). But if I do this it is still visible in the nagios core web GUI overview. But that's not what I want. I like it completely off and out of my overview.

May be I'm missing something, but is there a possibility to accomplish this with a minimum amont of effort? Or is it simply not possible. And yes I know core is for free and I do not have to expect that much of it. It's not a complaint by the way I'm just exploring the possibilities of Nagios core and trying to fit it in our enviroment.

Thanks in advance.

Grt. Tom.

Hi @ptsmit,

If I am understanding your question correctly, you should be able to accomplish this by adding the unwanted host to the service's config entry with an "!" before it. This post gives a more concrete example of this process in action.

If this wasn't exactly what you're looking for or it doesn't work, please let us know.

Thank you!

Thanks, That is what I was looking for, but couldn't find.
Case closed.