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) to 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,www.foo.com" identifies two specific hosts; "HOST=%www.*.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 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