On 1/22/2019 8:57 AM, Kris Springer wrote:
Is there a way to drop all host data for multiple hosts using a wildcard? I know how to drop a single host and erase it's data, but I have a long list of IP Cameras that I changed in my hosts file and instead of dropping each individual hostname I'd like to drop all hosts that start with 'Cam'. I attempted this but it didn't remove anything.
./xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop Cam*"
No. You can't use wild cards here. It's dangerous to even think about it.
In our installation, I've written a couple of wrapper scripts which accept multiple host-names as parameters and loop through them. As a one-off, you can do
for i in foo bar baz; do ./xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop $i"; done
--
Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid
Department of Administration
State of Alaska