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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Total guess here but maybe you could
try changing:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:windowtext'>HOST=%(prod-.*) SERVICE=* EXHOST=$UNUSED_PROD<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> MAIL $PRIMARY color=red REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> MAIL $SECONDARY color=red DURATION>20 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:windowtext'>HOST=%(prod-.*) EXHOST=%$UNUSED_PROD<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> MAIL $PRIMARY color=red REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> MAIL $SECONDARY color=red DURATION>20 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>And obv remove the % from the start of $UNUSED_PROD, just “my 2 cents worth”<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Jason.</span></font><font
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr@cisco.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 15 November 2006 18:03<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit]
hobbit-alerts.cfg regex/MACRO problem - need help</span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I'm still having this problem. If anyone has any ideas
I'm open to suggestions :)<br>
<br>
-Charles<br>
<br>
Charles Jones wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am trying to use a regex macro to exclude a number
of hosts from an alert. Here is the one I was using at first:<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>$UNUSED_PROD=%prod-app-(2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|18|20|21|22|23|24)|prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here is how I am using it for the actual alert
definition:<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>HOST=%(prod-.*) SERVICE=* EXHOST=$UNUSED_PROD<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> MAIL $PRIMARY color=red REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> MAIL $SECONDARY color=red DURATION>20 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I ran into a problem with the host
"prod-app-12" matching the regex. I realized this was because I was
not terminating the numbers, so I changed my variable to:<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>$UNUSED_PROD=%prod-app-(2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|18|20|21|22|23|24)$|prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>This SHOULD work according to online regex testing
tools, and I also at Henriks advice, verified it using "pcretest":<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>$ pcretest<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>PCRE version 6.6 06-Feb-2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> re> /prod-app-(2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|18|20|21|22|23|24)$|prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$/<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>data> prod-web-12<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>No match<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>data> prod-web-11<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> 0: prod-web-11<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> 1: <unset><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> 2: 11<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>data><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As seen above, the host
"prod-web-12" does NOT match, but "prod-web-11" DOES, which
is exactly how I want it. <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>However, when I use this in
hobbit-alerts.cfg. I do not get the expected behavior. Instead, ALL hosts
match, according to pages sent out and from viewing the "info"
section. </span></b>The strange thing is, according to hobbitd_alert
--test, the hostname was successfully excluded, but clicking on the
"info" column for hosts that are supposed to be excluded reveals that
they are still configured to alert.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>../bin/hobbitd_alert --test prod-web-11 procs --color-red<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 send_alert prod-web-11:procs state Paging<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 *** Match with 'HOST=%(prod-.*) SERVICE=*' ***<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Matching host:service:page 'prod-web-11:procs:PROD/PRODWEB' against rule line 170<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 *** Match with 'MAIL $PRIMARY color=red REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms' ***<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Mail alert with command 'mail <a
href="mailto:xxxxx@cingularme.com">xxxxx@cingularme.com</a>'<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Failed 'MAIL $SECONDARY color=red DURATION>20 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms' (min. duration 0<1200)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>...<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Failed 'HOST=* SERVICE=* EXHOST=$UNUSED_PROD' (hostname excluded)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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* Another thing, when I do the same test as above, using hostname
"prod-web-12", which is a host that should NOT be excluded,
hobbitd_alert still says that it was excluded (same last line of output as the
prod-web-11 test above).<br>
<br>
I have also tried enclosing the regex in quotes, which didn't work either.<br>
<br>
If anyone has any insight, please let me know. I have contacted Henrik about
this, but I believe he misread my email, as he suggested that I add $ to the
regex, which I had already tried...so now I am hoping that he or someone else
sees this message and can see what Im doing wrong.<br>
<br>
-Charles<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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