[xymon] hobbit-clients.cfg, regex and IGNORE

On Friday 24 December 2010, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

Hi all,

Was hoping someone could help me understand how these definitions in hobbit-clients.cfg:

DISK %^/a IGNORE DISK %^/a/.* IGNORE

...excluded these filesystems in the disk test:

njmsa/AppArchive 10G 8.2G 1.8G 83% /AppArchive /dev/md/dsk/d101 1.9G 1.3G 631M 68% /apps_marcy /dev/md/dsk/d103 1.9G 1.3G 476M 74% /apps

What I'm trying to exclude are filesystems /a and /a/* (like /a/var, /a/usr, etc.).

Hopefully someone's regex-fu is superior to mine. Thanks in advance! For /a, you can try: DISK %^/a$ IGNORE

Also try to install txt2reg. This is a command line utility to build up regular expressions.

Stef