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1) even with the include, you have to define each host entry.<br>
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2) No more concerns. My concern was around using xymonfetch and that the server sent some info for the files. Mike (and experimentation) has removed those concerns.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 27, 2014 11:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Galen Johnson<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mike Burger; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] client-local.cfg</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 January 2014 02:57, Galen Johnson <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:Galen.Johnson@sas.com" target="_blank">Galen.Johnson@sas.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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1) Well...poo! That's unfortunate as we have several dozen of similarly named servers we need to run some specific file checks on and it's going to be a bit annoying to have to add each one individually.<br>
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<div>You could make this easier by having an include file. Then just include the file for each host:</div>
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<div>[<a href="http://server1.example.com">server1.example.com</a>]</div>
<div>include standard-client.cfg</div>
<div>[<a href="http://server2.example.com">server2.example.com</a>]</div>
<div>include standard-client.cfg</div>
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<div>Not as good as regexp or wildcard hostname matching, but slightly better.</div>
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<div>Another option is to auto-generate your client-local.cfg file from a macro configuration file - dare I say in M4 format? This is often how sendmail configurations are managed. After each change, you type "make" and it rebuilds the configuration file.</div>
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2) I'm concerned about having to use a command to find certain files..."If you want to check multiple files using a wildcard, you must use a command to generate the filenames. Putting wildcards directly into the file: entry will not work." Which would imply
that if I want to check for a files using a wild card, I would need to have a line in client-local.cfg like:<br>
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file:`ls /path/to/<pattern>`<br>
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<div>Correct. This works, and is awesomely extensible. What's your concern?</div>
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