Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks?

2009-02-02 Thread Keith Edmunds
You can disable inherited service checks for a host by putting an exclamation mark in front of the host name in the service definition. Look for Excluding Hosts in http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html. Thanks Chris. The problem with that is that I need to list all hosts in

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks?

2009-02-02 Thread Max
Another way to make scaling host configurations easier is to use the service - hostgroup - host relationship in your configuration. For example, we have one set of SNMP-based checks that work for the Net-SNMP SNMp agent, and another set that work with the commercial SysEdge agent.. So,

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks? [OT: outlook settings]

2009-02-02 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Chris Beattie wrote: Sorry for the top-posting: I'm stuck with Outlook. heh. That's an excuse? ;) Here's what I do to make it more 'standard' when I have to use it -- Tools - Options - Email Options - Remove extra line breaks in plain

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks? [OT: outlook settings]

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Beattie
Marc Powell wrote: On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Chris Beattie wrote: Sorry for the top-posting: I'm stuck with Outlook. heh. That's an excuse? ;) Here's what I do to make it more 'standard' when I have to use it -- I started with BBSes in the early eighties, so to this day combining

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks?

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Beattie
...@midnighthax.com] Sent: Sun 2/1/2009 10:52 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks? Is there a way to disable inherited checks? I would like to have a master host file that lists all checks that are valid on any host, and then override that on a per

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks?

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Beattie
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks? You can disable inherited service checks for a host by putting an exclamation mark in front of the host name in the service definition. Look for Excluding Hosts in http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html

[Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks?

2009-02-01 Thread Keith Edmunds
Is there a way to disable inherited checks? I would like to have a master host file that lists all checks that are valid on any host, and then override that on a per-host basis. For example, I may have a check_pgsql in the master host file, but host_x which inherits from the master file doesn't