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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You need to preface the name with a % to indicate the hostname is a wildcard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HOST=%</span>serverweb*prod<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nathan Gaston<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 12, 2016 1:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Analysis.cfg Host name help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am editing my Analysis.cfg file trying to group similar servers together.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am having unpredictable results and would appreciate some help.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am trying to get servers grouped with wild cards as such<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">example:<br>
serverweb1prod<br>
serverweb3prod<br>
serverweb2prod<br>
#V for virtua<br>
serverwebV1prod<br>
serverwebV3prod<br>
serverwebV2prod<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">To monitor port 80 on all (Physical and Virtual) webservers I have the following.
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HOST=serverweb*prod<br>
PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]80)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=HTTP<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Then in the following block I want to monitor VM tools is running on my VM webservers.<br>
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HOST=serverwebV*prod l<br>
#Monitor for the service running<br>
PROC vmtoolsd.exe 1<br>
#Monitor for the service running<br>
SVC VMTools startup=automatic status=started<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Problem is that my non-virtual web servers are RED because they are looking for the VMWare Tools services.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What am I doing wrong?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thank you for your help<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-N<o:p></o:p></p>
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