Host Groups in hobbit-alerts.cfg as per BB?

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:28:40PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:

I'm trying to migrate from a large BB installation which made
extensive use of host groups via the BBConfigure script.  While some
of the groups would allow for a regex to describe its members, there
are quite a few sizable groups where this isn't feasible.

I doubt that. PCRE's are extremely flexible, see below.

Is there any way hobbit could support the bbwarnsetup.cfg file style
of host groups?

No. Frankly, I think this would be unnecessary bloat, because it is
fairly easy to do a script that converts the bbwarnsetup hostgroup
definitions into Hobbit macros that can be used directly in the alert
definitions.

I've attached such a script - it appears to work on the
bbwarnsetup.cfg I have, but there might be some special cases with
bbwarnsetup features I dont use.

E.g. if you have a definition like this one

hg-asd: mwsicha* asp* mwscsg* slsportal* asdad* asdnam* asdmgmt*

the script outputs a macro definition:

$HG-ASD=mwsicha(.*)|asp(.*)|mwscsg(.*)|slsportal(.*)|asdad(.*)|asdnam(.*)|asdmgmt(.*)

Put this in your hobbit-alerts.cfg, and you can define rules like
this:

HOST=%$HG-ASD
	MAIL user-ef86c43926b6@xymon.invalid SERVICE=http

etc.


(I admit - it's untested, but it should definitely work. The
expression at least is correct, and matches the hostnames it is
supposed to match).


Henrik