proc related alerts based on group (feature request)

[Asif Iqbal <vadud3 (at) gmail.com>]

PROC joeproc GROUP=joe

GROUP=joe
  MAIL joe (at) example.com
  ! MAIL wholegroup (at) example.com

Can I do something like this?

I want to alert joe only about `joeproc' . So that part works fine by
giving the process a group-id and
alert `onlyjoe (at) example.com' only when grouip-id matches.

But, I also want only joe gets alert for those processes. So is there
a way I can prevent the whole group to
receive alerts related to joeproc ? would be nice if I could have
EXPROC or NOT MAIL .. something like that.

So

this can be achieved easily:
  alert joe (at) example.com ONLY for process joeproc. don't alert him for
any other procs.

this cannot be achieved easily:
  alert ONLY joe (at) example.con for process joeproc. don't alert
wholegroup (at) example.com for this process.


I could exservice proc for wholegroup (at) example.com and then for each
group of hosts (PAGE) or each list of hosts (using regex)
I need to setup a GROUP for the list of procs that I want the
wholegroup to be alerted on. That is lot of work

It would be easy if I rather have some negation rule synatx, like
EXPROC or NOT MAIL

any suggestion is welcome.

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