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Hi, SebA<br><br>Would mind go one step further ?<br>get a hobbit developer account from Henrik to update the manpages ?<br><br>T.J. Yang<br><br><hr>From: spa@syntec.co.uk<br>To: hobbit@hswn.dk<br>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:25:16 +0100<br>Subject: RE: [hobbit] Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="EC_613472115-15102008"><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks for the suggestion. I'll certainly give that some
thought. Comma-separated is just the easiest when it comes to converting
my existing bbwarnrules.cfg file as I can just select the hosts and replace
spaces with commas. Going forward I had thought of using macros, but I'll
look at PAGEs too.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="EC_613472115-15102008"><font size="2" face="Arial">SebA</font></span></div><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> jm54601@yahoo.com
[mailto:jm54601@yahoo.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 15 October 2008
16:03<br><b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [hobbit]
Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not
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<div>I struggled with the same thing through a lot of trial and error.
On a related note, I highly recommend trying to get away from using a comma
separated list as it's a nightmare to maintain. I'm working toward using
the PAGE token, where a list of hosts on a given page alerts a group, so
you're effectively grouping your hosts based on the support team
responsible. There will still be exceptions, but if you can generalize
alerts so all the hosts on a given page can alert the same way, you'll save
time and avoid the possibility of a host not having an alert configured.
Just my 2 cents.</div>
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Original Message ----<br>From: SebA <spa@syntec.co.uk><br>To:
hobbit@hswn.dk<br>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:43:35 AM<br>Subject:
[hobbit] Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not
documented<br><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Comma-separated lists of hostnames in
hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented, so maybe we could add something like this
(taken from </font><a href="http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial">) to </font><a href="http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial">:</font><BR>
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HOST=targetstring Rule matching a host by the hostname.
"targetstring"<br> is either a
comma-separated list of hostnames (from the bb-hosts
file),<br> "*" to
indicate "all hosts", or a Perl-compatible regular
expression.<br> E.g.
"HOST=dns.foo.com,</font><a href="http://www.foo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Courier New">www.foo.com</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">"
identifies two specific
hosts;<br> "HOST=%www.*.<a href="http://foo.com/" target="_blank">foo.com</a>
EXHOST=www-test.foo.com" matches all hosts with
a<br> name beginning with "www",
except the "www-test" host.</font> <BR>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Adding an example that used the comma-separated
syntax to </font><a href="http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-alerts.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-alerts.html</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> and hobbit-alerts.cfg (sample) files would also be
good.</font><BR>
<font size="2" face="Arial">And, actually, maybe something to say that the
comma-separated syntax can be used in all XXX= places (except, presumably,
REPEAT) and also for the recipient. One really shouldn't have to work
this basic stuff out using:</font><BR>
<font size="2" face="Arial">$</font> <font size="2" face="Courier New">./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">!</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">We definitely need some more
complex examples. Maybe someone who has a complex and varied
hobbit-alerts.cfg can post some sanitized examples that someone can commit to
SVN?</font><BR>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Many thanks,</font> <BR>
<font size="2" face="Arial">SebA</font>
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