and we try yet another cargo cult dance to make the nagios gods happy

inventory/group_vars/nagios

@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ phx2_external:
 # Exclude these ansible host groups in hostgroups/all.cfg
 exclude_hostgroups:
   - nixnagios
+  - aarch64_test
+  - cloud_aws
   - copr_aws
   - copr_back_aws
   - copr_back_dev_aws
@@ -167,21 +169,8 @@ exclude_hostgroups:
   - copr_keygen_dev_aws
   - dbgserver_stg
   - ipsilon_dev
+  - maintainer_test
   - retrace_stg
   - retrace_stg_aws
   - virt_guest
   - virt_host
-
-# Try a way to have a group where we want to define them but we expect them not to ping
-no_ping:
-  - copr_aws
-  - copr_back_aws
-  - copr_back_dev_aws
-  - copr_dev_aws
-  - copr_dist_git_aws
-  - copr_dist_git_dev_aws
-  - copr_front_aws
-  - copr_front_dev_aws
-  - copr_keygen_aws
-  - copr_keygen_dev_aws
-  - ipsilon_dev

roles/nagios_server/templates/nagios/hostgroups/all.cfg.j2

@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ define hostgroup{
 {% endfor %}
 
 ## Services with minimal monitoring
+
+define hostgroup{
+       hostgroup_name cloud_aws_group
+       alias          cloud_aws_group
+       members        {% for host in groups['cloud_aws']|sort %}{{host}}, {% endfor %} 
+}
+
+
 define hostgroup{
        hostgroup_name mincheckgrp
        alias          mincheckgrp