[Spong-users] services not to monitor

Out of the group of things that are regularly seen in $CHECKS, mine is
'disk cpu processes logs memory' for example, I would like to see
something where we can have a services entry for a host in spong.hosts
look like

    services => 'ping: http imap ldap pop smtp -cpu -disk'

so that we can avoid listing a CPU check or DISK check on a certain
machine.  Would it be possible to use that type of syntax to suppess the
display and reporting of a certain system's service?

$CHECKS seems to only be used by spong-client, and spong-network's
munge_services function seems to do some of this massaging of the services
variables.  www-spong also has a few spots (services sub?) where we could
filter on the service starting with a dash and not return anything.  The
question is, are there other places that look at the services portion of
the HOSTS hash that would break from this?
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Ernest A. Oporto, Systems Administrator
Virage Logic Corporation
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