Nesting rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg

That was one thought I had, but the current version of Hobbit doesn't
display the group alerting under the "info" column.  But I do currently have
some group alerts set up.  I'm just looking at ways to clean up and simplify
the alert rules.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Patrick Nixon <user-1f2406f832af@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Did you look into maybe making a host group out of them?

I forget the hobbit term for them of course, but I know you can do
groups, which is a regex or simple declaration.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Gary Baluha <user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Is it possible to nest rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg?  For example, can I
do
something like this (indenting provided for readability):

PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
     HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
          MAIL user-662c32254ab8@xymon.invalid
      HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
          MAIL user-2a94730ebdd3@xymon.invalid

Our alerting rules are starting to get kind of complex, and nesting
alert
rules as above would make things easier.  I know I could do something
like:

PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
     MAIL user-662c32254ab8@xymon.invalid HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
     MAIL user-2a94730ebdd3@xymon.invalid HOST=%(hostD[0-9])

But some of the HOST= lists are very long (i.e. wrap across multiple
lines),
so the above 2nd example would look a lot uglier than it does in this
post
(which was simplified for readability).  If nesting rules won't work, I
wonder how much effort would be involved in adding this feature.