Thanks for the suggestion. I'll certainly give that some thought. Comma-separated is just the easiest when it comes to converting my existing bbwarnrules.cfg file as I can just select the hosts and replace spaces with commas. Going forward I had thought of using macros, but I'll look at PAGEs too.
SebA
From: jm54601 at yahoo.com [mailto:jm54601 at yahoo.com] Sent: 15 October 2008 16:03 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented
I struggled with the same thing through a lot of trial and error. On a related note, I highly recommend trying to get away from using a comma separated list as it's a nightmare to maintain. I'm working toward using the PAGE token, where a list of hosts on a given page alerts a group, so you're effectively grouping your hosts based on the support team responsible. There will still be exceptions, but if you can generalize alerts so all the hosts on a given page can alert the same way, you'll save time and avoid the possibility of a host not having an alert configured. Just my 2 cents.
----- Original Message ---- From: SebA <spa at syntec.co.uk> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:43:35 AM Subject: [hobbit] Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented
Comma-separated lists of hostnames in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented, so maybe we could add something like this (taken from <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html> http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html) to <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html> http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html:
HOST=targetstring Rule matching a host by the hostname."targetstring" is either a comma-separated list of hostnames (from the bb-hosts file), "*" to indicate "all hosts", or a Perl-compatible regular expression. E.g. "HOST=dns.foo.com, <http://www.foo.com/> www.foo.com" identifies two specific hosts; "HOST=%www.*.foo.com <http://foo.com/> EXHOST=www-test.foo.com" matches all hosts with a name beginning with "www", except the "www-test" host.
Adding an example that used the comma-separated syntax to <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-alerts.html> http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-alerts.html and hobbit-alerts.cfg (sample) files would also be good.
And, actually, maybe something to say that the comma-separated syntax can be used in all XXX= places (except, presumably, REPEAT) and also for the recipient. One really shouldn't have to work this basic stuff out using:
$ ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test ! We definitely need some more complex examples. Maybe someone who has a complex and varied hobbit-alerts.cfg can post some sanitized examples that someone can commit to SVN?
Many thanks,
SebA