[Xymon] MQ BO queue monitoring.

Adam Thorn alt36 at cam.ac.uk
Thu May 25 13:21:13 CEST 2023


On 25/05/2023 09:52, Neil Simmonds wrote:

> I’ve put a specific rule in for the queue in question and it’s above the 
> generic rule in the analysis.cfg file as previous experience has shown 
> me that Xymon seems to only pick up the first rule that matches.
> 
> Can anyone confirm if this is correct or am I going to have to dig into 
> the regular expression world to try and exclude this specific queue?

Whilst I've not looked at the relevant source code, quoting the 
documented behaviour from man analysis.cfg:

"The entire file is evaluated from the top to bottom, and the first 
match found is used. So you should put the specific settings first, and 
the generic ones last."

Adam


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