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Can't match alerts.cfg rules

list Japheth Cleaver
Sat, 5 Nov 2016 23:09:48 -0700
Message-Id: <user-3415081c742b@xymon.invalid>


On Sat, November 5, 2016 1:14 pm, Jake wrote:

I have 4.3.27-1.el7.terabithia running on Centos 7, and can't get any
rules in alerts.cfg.to match and fire an alert.

I have in hosts.cfg:

192.168.2.31 phone-sales # conn

In alerts.cfg:

 HOST=phone-sales COLOR=red
 MAIL user-81168669c6fa@xymon.invalid
## Wildcard rule
 HOST=%^.*$ COLOR=red
 MAIL user-81168669c6fa@xymon.invalid

Made the wildcard rule a regexp because "HOST=*" wasn't working, and
added the host-specific rule because no wildcard was working. But if I
trigger a red on host phone-sales, in alert.log I see:

Checking criteria for host 'phone-sales', which is not yet defined; some
alerts may not immediately fire

What am I missing? I retired a year and a half ago, and have been out of
practice, so feel free to start with "You dummy...."

Hi,

Can you show the output of xymoncmd xymond_alert --dump-config ? That
would help us see what xymond_alert itself is interpreting things as.

The "Checking criteria for host..." should only apply when xymond_alert
(via loadhosts) hasn't reloaded the hosts.cfg yet (in this instance). That
entry looks normal, though. Does the error get shown every time
xymond_alert starts up?


Regards,
-jc