On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:19:17AM -0400, Bill Matthews wrote:

Greetings,

I've been able to do some basic regular expression matching using the examples in hobbit-clients.cfg.

For example, this works fine: HOST=%(server1|server2|server3).domain.com

But this doesn't: HOST=%(server*).domain.com

I'm sure I'm just missing the syntax for wildcard matching?

Yep, this one is a classic: "*" means "zero or more occurrences of the previous letter", so when you write "server*", it means "0 or more occurrences of letter 'r'". I.e. it matches "serve", "server", "serverr" and so on.

You should use the "." wildcard character. Like HOST=%(server.*).domain.com

Also is there a way to define a test for every server except some hosts? I have a lot of tests I would love to put in the DEFAULT section, but I have a couple hosts that the tests would fail for.

Use the EXHOST setting, just like "HOST" but it excludes hosts - this can be used with or without a HOST setting. E.g.

EXHOST=%badhost.*\.domain\.com
   PROC cron

is a valid way of checking that "cron" is running on all hosts, except those called "badhost<something>"

Regards, Henrik

Bill,

I have used this with success.

HOST=%(atlftp|atlldap1|atlldap2|atlldap3|atllog|atlmidware1|atlmidware2| atlnfs1|atlnfs2|atlnfs3|atlsip1|atlsip2|atlsipc1|atlsipnot1|atlsipc2|atl sipnot2|atlsipreg2|atltma1|atltma2|atlvdns1|atlvdns2|atlvmail1|atlvsp2|a tlvsp3|atlsniffer1|atlsniffer2|atlmidware1|atlnfs1|atlsipreg1|atlvweb1|a tlvweb2|atlvweb3|atlmidware1|atlnfs1|atlsipreg1|atlvmailrelay|atlvweb1|a tlvweb2|atlvoipdb0).intelliverse.com

Ken Cooper

From: Bill Matthews [mailto:bill.matthews at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:19 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Reg Exp matching in hobbit-clients.cfg

Greetings,

I've been able to do some basic regular expression matching using the examples in hobbit-clients.cfg.

For example, this works fine: HOST=%(server1|server2|server3).domain.com

But this doesn't: HOST=%(server*).domain.com

I'm sure I'm just missing the syntax for wildcard matching?

Also is there a way to define a test for every server except some hosts? I have a lot of tests I would love to put in the DEFAULT section, but I have a couple hosts that the tests would fail for.

I'm wondering if something like this would be possible? HOST=%(!badhost1|badhost2).domain.com

Thanks for the help, BM