Ignoring a Service 🔗 link

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 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
user-63a5a9869cbc@xymon.invalid

I do it like this:

HOST=%(server*|server2*)
        MAIL 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>wrote:

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

            MAIL user-04ae7151bbbd@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-04ae7151bbbd@xymon.invalid>

    user-63a5a9869cbc@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-63a5a9869cbc@xymon.invalid>

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