On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:28:40PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:
I'm trying to migrate from a large BB installation which made extensive use of host groups via the BBConfigure script. While some of the groups would allow for a regex to describe its members, there are quite a few sizable groups where this isn't feasible.
I doubt that. PCRE's are extremely flexible, see below.
Is there any way hobbit could support the bbwarnsetup.cfg file style of host groups?
No. Frankly, I think this would be unnecessary bloat, because it is fairly easy to do a script that converts the bbwarnsetup hostgroup definitions into Hobbit macros that can be used directly in the alert definitions.
I've attached such a script - it appears to work on the bbwarnsetup.cfg I have, but there might be some special cases with bbwarnsetup features I dont use.
E.g. if you have a definition like this one
hg-asd: mwsicha* asp* mwscsg* slsportal* asdad* asdnam* asdmgmt*
the script outputs a macro definition:
$HG-ASD=mwsicha(.*)|asp(.*)|mwscsg(.*)|slsportal(.*)|asdad(.*)|asdnam(.*)|asdmgmt(.*)
Put this in your hobbit-alerts.cfg, and you can define rules like this:
HOST=%$HG-ASD MAIL admin at foo.com SERVICE=http
etc.
(I admit - it's untested, but it should definitely work. The expression at least is correct, and matches the hostnames it is supposed to match).
Henrik