On 16 Apr 2009, at 15:10, Marc Powell wrote: >> 2009/4/16 Andrew Bruce <abr...@hope-st.ath.cx>: > >>> hostgroup_name Win_All, !WinNT_old >> >> You can indeed do that. I do something similar myself to check all >> Wintel servers, but not those in a group called 'BRONZE'. > > And the doc link for reference -- > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html#service
Marc answered me in similar vein recently, and I am now using it, but I made a rather odd discovery. This host_name !host17, host* works whereas this host_name host*, !host17 produces this error at start: Reading configuration data... Error: Could not find any host matching '!host17' (config file '/etc/ nagios3/conf.d/MM-snmp-checks.cfg', starting on line 49) Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service (config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/MM-snmp-checks.cfg', starting on line 49) ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files... It seems that you can't place a negative match after a wildcard. __ Kindest regards, Niall O Broin MakaluMedia Group | http://makalumedia.com | +49 6151 8724600 MakaluMedia Internet & Engineering Services GmbH | Robert-Bosch Strasse 7 | 64293 Darmstadt | Germany Geschäftsführer: Matt Henderson | Sitz der Gesellschaft: Darmstadt | Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Darmstadt HRB 6911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null