[hobbit] Help with Alerting

James,

You need to have the '%' sign in front of your alert for it to be treated as a regular expression.

In your examples:

HOST=%(sys002|sys003|sys004|sys005|sys3001|nu002|net003| \

 u004|unx013|net004|com001|com003|com004|com005| \

 unx006|unx012|com002)  SERVICE=conn,disk,http,ldap,ports,memory

 MAIL user1 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED RECOVERED

 MAIL user2 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED,YELLOW RECOVERED

 MAIL user3 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED RECOVERED

 MAIL user4 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED,YELLOW RECOVERED

and

HOST=%sysdu* SERVICE=conn,disk

MAIL DB_TEAM at mydomain.com REPEAT=90 COLOR=RED RECOVERED

HOST=%unixdu* SERVICE=conn,disk

MAIL DB_TEAM at mydomain.com.com REPEAT=90 COLOR=RED RECOVERED

Jeff