In truth, I think my issue is I'm not completely understanding the "perl
compatable" regular expressions. Can someone perhaps include some
examples?
I am finding that some of my attempts below are actually causing ALL
alerts to simply cease-- with nothing in the log files to indicate I
have an issue!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Brodie, Kent [mailto:user-8fbf1c81e97c@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:20 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] How to totally disable alerts for a particular host?
I'm not sure I understand the docs here... is something like this
correct?
# These rules eliminate printers from warnings/alerts
##HOST=%^pr*.hmgc.mcw.edu
## IGNORE
HOST=lp4.phys.mcw.edu
IGNORE
##HOST=%^hp*
## IGNORE
# Misc hosts we do not want alerts on
##HOST=mac1.hmgc.mcw.edu
## IGNORE
##HOST=canadeo-disk.brc.mcw.edu
## IGNORE
##HOST=sharpe.phys.mcw.edu
## IGNORE
HOST=bc1s7.phys.mcw.edu
IGNORE
#
# Now on to our regular monitoring rules for things we DO want alerts on
#
HOST=uram.hmgc.mcw.edu
MAIL user-da7f7d5174c0@xymon.invalid REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT
MAIL user-f41ee3b0dc7b@xymon.invalid REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS
##SERVICE=disk
## MAIL user-da7f7d5174c0@xymon.invalid REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT
HOST=loki.phys.mcw.edu SERVICE=disk
MAIL user-da7f7d5174c0@xymon.invalid REPEAT=60 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT
SERVICE=conn
MAIL sysadmins REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT
MAIL pagers REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS
SERVICE=oracle
MAIL user-37274d69ae6a@xymon.invalid REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT
MAIL sysadmins REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT
MAIL user-f41ee3b0dc7b@xymon.invalid REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS
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