Michael,
Perhaps you are thinking “glob” patterns, like the ones used with directory listings. Regular expressions are different. “*” doesn’t mean any sequence of characters, but zero or more of the preceding character. Google “regular expressions”. Xymon uses perl-style regular expressions.
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Steve Coile Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:58 To: Michael Resnick Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Possible regex issue xymon 4.3.11
It's you. The "s*" in your regular expression matches zero or more "s" at that location. The hostname you give contains zero "s" at that point, which matches the expression.
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Michael Resnick via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> wrote:
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Resnick <sys1002 at yahoo.com<mailto:sys1002 at yahoo.com>> To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Cc: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Possible regex issue xymon 4.3.11 I have the following in alerts.cfg
HOST=%sciv2-ws*
The problem is that it is picking up a host called
sciv2-wdl2-hqd01
Is it me or the regex ? Has this been fixed in newer versions ?
Thanks !