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<p>I have 4.3.27-1.el7.terabithia running on Centos 7, and can't get any rules in alerts.cfg.to match and fire an alert.</p>
<p>I have in hosts.cfg:</p>
<p>192.168.2.31 phone-sales # conn</p>
<p>In alerts.cfg:</p>
<p> HOST=phone-sales COLOR=red<br /> MAIL somebody@gmail.com<br />## Wildcard rule<br /> HOST=%^.*$ COLOR=red<br /> MAIL somebody@gmail.com</p>
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<p>Made the wildcard rule a regexp because "HOST=*" wasn't working, and added the host-specific rule because no wildcard was working. But if I trigger a red on host phone-sales, in alert.log I see:</p>
<p>Checking criteria for host 'phone-sales', which is not yet defined; some alerts may not immediately fire</p>
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<p>What am I missing? I retired a year and a half ago, and have been out of practice, so feel free to start with "You dummy...."</p>
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