[hobbit] how to define a catch-all in hobbit-alerts.cfg

Bill Wagner william.wagner at ipacc.com
Thu Oct 22 17:16:08 CEST 2009


I will be able to define subpages and create rules matching against them.

thanks

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [hobbit] how to define a catch-all in hobbit-alerts.cfg
From: Bill Wagner <william.wagner at ipacc.com>
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Date: 10/22/2009 8:22 AM
> I agree that would simplify things.  However we are using (inherited 
> from Big Brother) fairly heterogeneous PAGEs.
> Bill
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] how to define a catch-all in hobbit-alerts.cfg
> From: Thomas Kähn <tkaehn at netcologne.de>
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Date: 10/21/2009 1:29 AM
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:50:08PM +0200, Bill Wagner wrote:
>>   
>>> I have rules defined for many of my 300+ hosts ( a mix of windows and 
>>> unix servers scattered throughout, and interleaved across,  multiple 
>>> pages.  I want to define a default rule for hosts so that, for example, 
>>> every conn alert goes to my unix administrators.  I have experimented 
>>> with several solutions which do not yield the desired result.  e.g.:
>>>
>>> HOST=* EXHOST=<>  # I can't explicitly list all hosts (too many) and 
>>> tried macros consisting of wildcard host names
>>>    MAIL ...
>>>
>>> HOST=* EXHOST=<>
>>>     MAIL ... UNMATCHED
>>>
>>> if I use only HOST=* then I end up with multiple (sometimes redundant) 
>>> recipients for some hosts and no recipients for hosts not previously 
>>> explicitly defined.
>>>     
>>
>> simply group the servers on different pages and match using PAGE=...
>>
>> Best regards
>> Thomas
>>   
>


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