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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial">I was too quick on that... It
does not really work.</font></font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/10/2019 14:57, Ron Cohen wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi</p>
<p>so the trick to use wild card with COMPACT while avoiding the
columns creation, is to block those in the hosts.cfg .default
line. like this:</p>
<p>0.0.0.0 .default. # TRENDS:*,!whatever, !c_.*</p>
<p>This works for a compiled 4.3.28. Might not for others.</p>
<p>Still couldn't find a way around the mapping of purple to red.
Will appreciate any help.<br>
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<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Ron</p>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial">Hi</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial">I was asked to create a
test for the non/existence of crontab in hundreds of
testers accounts. The issue is that those accounts using
cron daily in order the refresh the testing environments
during nights in preparation for next day activities.
Testers being testers, quite often removed those crontabs,
creating havoc for other testers.</font></font> <font
size="+1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 16px">I
wrote a small script which runs from each of those
accounts cron, and sends "All good" to the xymon server.
If crontab removed, the test obviously goes purple. This
is working fine, but the Operation team who monitors
xymon, is less sensitive to tests goes purple rather
then red,and too often fails to report it. A while ago,
someone asked the same question of mapping purple to
red, and I said to myself, "Oh, I should remember this!"
which of-course, I didn't, and can't find that
exchange... can anyone help with this?</span></font></font></p>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
16px">The other issue with this solution, is that there
are hundreds of those account, and being lazy, I'm not
too enthusiastic with the idea of maintaining arm
length COMPACT lists. So what i tried to do is to use a
wild card with the column name which is also the user
name. So e.g. tester1 account will send a column
c_tester1 etc. The compact will be COMPACT:crontab=c_.*</span></font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
16px">This is working - sought-of - there is a column
named crontab, populated with all of the c_test
accounts, BUT it also creates a column for each of them
on the main page. Is there a way around it, or it is not
a workable solution?</span></font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
16px">Cheers</span></font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
16px">Ron</span></font></font></p>
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