All,
It's not a problem preventing functionality in this case, but % patterns
match using regular expressions not wildcards.
The patterns aren't anchored by default (i.e. they match a substring),
so in fact the pattern %(server*|server2*) will match any name which
includes the string "serve" (optionally followed by 0 or more "r"
characters) or "server" (optionally followed by 0 or more "2"
characters) - which is already matched by the first pattern. So for
example "abcserve123" will match.
If you wanted to do anchored matching (i.e. not substrings) then the
following regular expression would be the equivalent for a wildcard pattern:
%(^server.*|^server2.*)
or more compact:
%^server2?.*
http://www.regular-expressions.info/ is a useful resource
David.
I do it like this:
HOST=%(server*|server2*)
MAIL user-04ae7151bbbd@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-04ae7151bbbd@xymon.invalid>
EXSERVICE=smtp REPEAT=999999 RECOVERED
Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Balderston, David <user-63a5a9869cbc@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-63a5a9869cbc@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
Hey,
I need some help to ignore this service. Have tried many
different ways of putting this in the code, but nothing seems to
work. Trying to ignore smtp for one host because it alerts every
time it turns on to send an email. Here is what i have in the
alerts.cfg:
HOST=%(server*|server2*)
IGNORE HOST=server* SERVICE=smtp
MAIL user-04ae7151bbbd@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-04ae7151bbbd@xymon.invalid>
REPEAT=999999 RECOVERED
So the way i understand this is that it should be ignoring smtp
but still emailing about the other services. If anyone has any
ideas on what i may be doing wrong that would be great.
Thanks,
David Balderston
Core Bio Services
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