You could use macros...
$hg-pager=%(^hostA|$hostB|^hostC) $hg-email=%%(hostD[0-9])
PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED HOST=$hg-pager MAIL pager at somewhere.com HOST=$hg-email MAIL email at somewhere.com
This keeps all the clutter out of the rule sets.
Stewart
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to nest rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg? For example, can I do something like this (indenting provided for readability):
PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC MAIL pager at somewhere.com HOST=%(hostD[0-9]) MAIL email at somewhere.com
Our alerting rules are starting to get kind of complex, and nesting alert rules as above would make things easier. I know I could do something like:
PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED MAIL pager at somewhere.com HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC MAIL email at somewhere.com HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
But some of the HOST= lists are very long (i.e. wrap across multiple lines), so the above 2nd example would look a lot uglier than it does in this post (which was simplified for readability). If nesting rules won't work, I wonder how much effort would be involved in adding this feature.
-- Stewart
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