[Xymon] Monitoring process with regex - fails with 4.3.4 and BBWin 0.13

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Wed, November 25, 2015 11:51 pm, Seiichirou Hiraoka wrote:
> Hello
>
> I will use the BBWin 0.13 in Windows Server 2012, the Xymon 4.3.4 on
> CentOS
> I use.
>
> In order to monitor the regular expression to the Windows process, we set
> as follows in the BBWin.cfg of Windows Server.
>
> <procs>
>    <setting name "notepad" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" />
>    <setting name "% notepad C: \ Users \ Administrator \ Desktop \
> test.txt" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" />
>    <setting name "% notepad *" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" />
>    <setting name "% ^ notepad *" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" />
> </ procs>
>
> The first line "notepad" only I've correctly match, the rest regular
> expression
> does not match.
> Please tell me if there is a mistake.
>

Hi,

I'm not that experienced with BBWin (or at least, not in the last 10 years
or so), but have you tried converting the "*" to ".*"? I'm not sure which
style of regex is used there for evaluation.


-jc