port rule evaluation in hobbit-clients.cfg

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:20:08AM -0400, Jay Brislin wrote:

I set up a PORT rule to alert for SENDMAIL logins in the DEFAULT section of my hobbit-clients.cfg file. I wanted
to override that rule for certain hosts to allow SENDMAIL logins. My hobbit-clients.cfg looks like this:
HOST=luxuria
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]25)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=9 color=green "TEXT=SENDMAIL logins"
DEFAULT
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]23)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=0 color=red "TEXT=TELNET logins"
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]25)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=0 color=red "TEXT=SENDMAIL logins"
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]20)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=0 color=red "TEXT=FTP logins"

The DEFAULT section should ONLY be used to change the defaults for cpu-,
disk- and memory-thresholds. Do NOT use it for process- or
port-monitoring.  Instead, you should use:

HOST=luxuria
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]25)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=9 color=green "TEXT=SENDMAIL logins"

EXHOST=luxuria
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]23)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=0 color=red "TEXT=TELNET logins"
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]25)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=0 color=red "TEXT=SENDMAIL logins"
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]20)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=0 color=red "TEXT=FTP logins"


Henrik