In truth, I think my issue is I'm not completely understanding the "perl compatable" regular expressions. Can someone perhaps include some examples?

I am finding that some of my attempts below are actually causing ALL alerts to simply cease-- with nothing in the log files to indicate I have an issue!!!

-----Original Message----- From: Brodie, Kent [mailto:brodie at mcw.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:20 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] How to totally disable alerts for a particular host?

I'm not sure I understand the docs here... is something like this correct?

These rules eliminate printers from warnings/alerts

##HOST=%^pr*.hmgc.mcw.edu

IGNORE

HOST=lp4.phys.mcw.edu IGNORE ##HOST=%^hp*

IGNORE

Misc hosts we do not want alerts on

##HOST=mac1.hmgc.mcw.edu

IGNORE

##HOST=canadeo-disk.brc.mcw.edu

IGNORE

##HOST=sharpe.phys.mcw.edu

IGNORE

HOST=bc1s7.phys.mcw.edu IGNORE

Now on to our regular monitoring rules for things we DO want alerts on

HOST=uram.hmgc.mcw.edu MAIL brodie at phys.mcw.edu REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT MAIL kent.brodie at pager.mcw.edu REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS

##SERVICE=disk

MAIL brodie at phys.mcw.edu REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT

HOST=loki.phys.mcw.edu SERVICE=disk MAIL brodie at phys.mcw.edu REPEAT=60 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT

SERVICE=conn MAIL sysadmins REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT MAIL pagers REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS

SERVICE=oracle MAIL szacher at hmgc.mcw.edu REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT MAIL sysadmins REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=TEXT MAIL kent.brodie at pager.mcw.edu REPEAT=30 RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS [hobbit at coffman etc]$

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