Alert Syntax and Notification log mismatch

list Henrik Størner
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:34:29 +0200
Message-Id: <user-88999567997b@xymon.invalid>

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:

I did a bbcmd hobbit_alert --dump-config and looked for particular host testhost1

HOST=%.* EXHOST=%testhost1(.*)
	MAIL user-ac2650e4fc9b@xymon.invalid,user-436c3acb35ab@xymon.invalid FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 SERVICE=msgs DURATION>10

HOST=%testhost1(.*) EXSERVICE="msgs,vmio"
        MAIL user-ac2650e4fc9b@xymon.invalid,user-436c3acb35ab@xymon.invalid FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30
        MAIL user-ad62a7b8f4f5@xymon.invalid,user-6f66b61cf18f@xymon.invalid FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 

HOST=%testhost1(.*) SERVICE="vmio"
        MAIL user-ac2650e4fc9b@xymon.invalid FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 DURATION>10

Asif's problem turned out to be the quotes he put around the SERVICE and
EXSERVICE parameters. EXSERVICE="msgs,vmio" does not work as expected,
but EXSERVICE=msgs,vmio does.

That is too tricky for my taste. I'll try and make it behave better.


Regards,
Henrik