[chef] Re: Nagios cookbook question: excluding a host?

[Joseph Holsten < >]

One pain point I've felt here is that if you take all the hosts out of the 
host group, nagios does not accept the new configuration. I'm not sure what 
the best way to do this is.

On 2013-06-13, at 10:13, Tim Smith 
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> That's not a supported feature of the cookbook at the moment, but I was 
> toying with a way to do it.  I had it setup at one point to exclude 
> notification for environments or roles, but it would only do that for the 
> host.
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> On Jun 13, 2013, at 9:30 AM, JJ Asghar 
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>> I am extremely interested is this too.  
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>> I haven't been able to figure out a way other than just silencing the 
>> notifications or always putting it in downtime.
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>> Best Regards,
>> JJ Asghar
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>> Subject: [chef] Nagios cookbook question: excluding a host?
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>> I've got a setup that is all AWS nodes-- except for one, which is located 
>> in the office. However, since that machine belongs to some roles, and as 
>> such it's getting pulled into the list of machines to monitor.
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>> Is there any way that I can configure this to ignore the host? I'm one 
>> step away from turning on notifications, I'd like to have a cleared screen 
>> when I do so. :)
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>> Thanks!
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