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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here’s what finally worked for generating the alarms:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FILE %/opt/WSCluster.*/WebSphere/wp_profile/javacore.* yellow NOEXIST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I believe that the .* after “WSCluster” was terminating the initial regex, as what I was seeing was the same behavior (white with files not found, green when the files existed). Setting “javacore” to “javacore.*” as well generated the yellow alarms I was looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mike Burger</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>AIX Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://freedomhome.fhmc.local/intranet/main.jsp" target=content><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=143 height=70 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.gif@01CDE8CB.DE2627A0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01CC72C8.834C1990"></span></b></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Phone (317) 537-3680</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>, </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Fax</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>(317) 537-4680, Cell (317) 797-2040 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>E-mail: </span></b><a href="mailto:Anthony.House@freedommortgage.com"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mike.Burger@FreedomMortgage.com</span></b></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>"Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time." --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a> [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Burger<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> Jeremy Laidman; David Baldwin<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Alerting on the existence of a file with wildcards<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ll give it a try…thank you both very much.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mike Burger</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>AIX Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://freedomhome.fhmc.local/intranet/main.jsp" target=content><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=143 height=70 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CDE8CB.DE2627A0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01CC72C8.834C1990"></span></b></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Phone (317) 537-3680</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>, </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Fax</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>(317) 537-4680, Cell (317) 797-2040 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>E-mail: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:Anthony.House@freedommortgage.com"><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mike.Burger@FreedomMortgage.com</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>"Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time." --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jeremy Laidman [<a href="mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au">mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 01, 2013 11:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> David Baldwin<br><b>Cc:</b> Michael Burger; <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Alerting on the existence of a file with wildcards<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 2 January 2013 14:10, David Baldwin <<a href="mailto:david.baldwin@ausport.gov.au" target="_blank">david.baldwin@ausport.gov.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regular expressions must be specified for the entire match <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Doh! Yes, what he said. I parsed the strings starting at the percent. Oops.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>J<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including all attachments, is for<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, alteration or<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>distribution is strictly prohibited and may violate state or federal law. If you<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>delete this email and destroy all copies of the message.<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>
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