[hobbit] Nesting rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg

[Patrick Nixon]

Did you look into maybe making a host group out of them?

I forget the hobbit term for them of course, but I know you can do
groups, which is a regex or simple declaration.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to nest rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg?  For example, can I do
> something like this (indenting provided for readability):
>
> PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
>      HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
>           MAIL pager at somewhere.com
>       HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
>           MAIL email at somewhere.com
>
> Our alerting rules are starting to get kind of complex, and nesting alert
> rules as above would make things easier.  I know I could do something like:
>
> PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
>      MAIL pager at somewhere.com HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
>      MAIL email at somewhere.com HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
>
> But some of the HOST= lists are very long (i.e. wrap across multiple lines),
> so the above 2nd example would look a lot uglier than it does in this post
> (which was simplified for readability).  If nesting rules won't work, I
> wonder how much effort would be involved in adding this feature.
>