[hobbit] hosts wildcards in clients-local.cfg

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Mon Jan 14 17:13:58 CET 2008


I reported a bug of how setting class does not work when setting it 
client-side (unless it is fixed in latest snapshot), so this may not be 
an option unless they have patched.

-Charles

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:29:11PM +0000, Szymon Bakowski wrote:
>   
>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:34:12PM +0000, Szymon.Bakowski (at)
>>>       
>> ladbrokes.co.uk wrote:
>>     
>>>> Just wanted to ask a quick question (went through the archive, but haven't
>>>> found an answer for my question):
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to use host wildcards in clients-local.cfg file ? They do
>>>> work for me for example in hobbit-clients.cfg but it seems that I can not
>>>> make it work in clients-local.cfg. In hobbit-clients.cfg I am using for
>>>> example as follows:
>>>>
>>>> HOST=%www..\.foo\.com
>>>>
>>>> but it doesn't work in clients-local.cfg.
>>>>         
>>> No, you cannot.
>>>
>>> The way around this is to use host "classes". The default class for a
>>> host is the name of the operating system - that's why the "[linux]" and
>>> "[hpux]" etc. sections work. You can change the class of a host either
>>> by configuring it with the CLASS:classname setting in bb-hosts, or by
>>> specifying the class on the client when you start the Hobbit client.
>>>
>>> It is a bit annoying that you cannot use regexp's in client-local.cfg.
>>> Might be something I change.
>>>       
>> Thank you Henrik for your reply. Classes did help indeed. Can I use
>> them in other config files like for example in hobbit-clients.cfg ?
>>     
>
> Yes, both hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg support a CLASS=...
> way of selecting hosts.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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