Yes, that did it. For some reason didn't think of making the whole thing a regex.

Thank you.

On 11/7/06, Jones, Jason (Altrincham) <JasonAS_Jones at mentor.com> wrote:

This should work: COLOR=red EXSERVICE=%(msgs|^int.*)

Jason.

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*From:* Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com] *Sent:* 07 November 2006 13:30 *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* [hobbit] Problem with Regular Expression in Alert

Hi Everyone,

I am having an issue where Hobbit will not take multiple alert parameters if one of them is a regular expression. I have my hobbit built with MRTG integration. My example is that I want to have my catch all rule exclude all msgs and interfaces (in the format int01-08, int09-16, ...).

This works: COLOR=red EXSERVICE=%^int.*

This doesn't work: COLOR=red EXSERVICE=msgs,%^int.*

Does anyone have any hints, how to get this working? Maybe even a logical approach to get it working and not necessary a technical approach?

Thanks.

-- 'If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.' --Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction

:-) I did the same thing when I first changed our alerting, was swearing at it for a while then realised, still reduced 20 conditions to 9 so all worked out in the end.

Jason.

From: Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com] Sent: 07 November 2006 13:55 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problem with Regular Expression in Alert

Yes, that did it. For some reason didn't think of making the whole thing a regex.

Thank you.

On 11/7/06, Jones, Jason (Altrincham) <JasonAS_Jones at mentor.com> wrote:

This should work: COLOR=red EXSERVICE=%(msgs|^int.*)

Jason.

From: Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com] Sent: 07 November 2006 13:30 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Problem with Regular Expression in Alert

Hi Everyone,

I am having an issue where Hobbit will not take multiple alert parameters if one of them is a regular expression. I have my hobbit built with MRTG integration. My example is that I want to have my catch all rule exclude all msgs and interfaces (in the format int01-08, int09-16, ...).

This works: COLOR=red EXSERVICE=%^int.*

This doesn't work: COLOR=red EXSERVICE=msgs,%^int.*

Does anyone have any hints, how to get this working? Maybe even a logical approach to get it working and not necessary a technical approach?

Thanks.

-- 'If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.' --Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction