[Xymon] Possible regex issue xymon 4.3.11

[Ribeiro, Glauber]

Michael,

Perhaps you are thinking “glob” patterns, like the ones used with directory listings. Regular expressions are different. “*” doesn’t mean any sequence of characters, but zero or more of the preceding character. Google “regular expressions”. Xymon uses perl-style regular expressions.



From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Steve Coile
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:58
To: Michael Resnick
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Possible regex issue xymon 4.3.11

It's you.  The "s*" in your regular expression matches zero or more "s" at that location.  The hostname you give contains zero "s" at that point, which matches the expression.


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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:20:31 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Possible regex issue xymon 4.3.11
I have the following in alerts.cfg

HOST=%sciv2-ws*

The problem is that it is picking up a host called


sciv2-wdl2-hqd01

Is it me or the regex ?
Has this been fixed  in newer versions ?

Thanks !



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