[Xymon] Ignore and trigger in client-local.cfg

Johan Karlsson johan.karlsson at deltamanagement.se
Mon Feb 3 11:08:34 CET 2014


> Den 29-01-2014 13:36, Johan Karlsson skrev:
>
>> First, is it at all possible to specify a trigger on things we want to 
>> pick up, and discard everything else with a "catch all" ignore 
>> expression?
>
>I thought so, but looking at the code I can see that the 'ignore' lines are processed >first. So you have to setup your ignore-lines so they won't discard the important data.
>
>But if you list the trigger patterns, then those should always be included in the log >data - unless they are also matched by 'ignore'. So you could get away without any >'ignore' patterns, and just the 'trigger' 
>patterns to make sure you do get those important lines.
>
>Regards,
>Henrik

Thanks for the clarification! Then I'll simply only use triggers :)

Regards,

Johan



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