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Nesting rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg

list Gary Baluha
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:26:29 -0400
Message-Id: <user-4fc6de172639@xymon.invalid>

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.