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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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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/2019 18:52, Ron Cohen wrote:<br>
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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>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
16px"><br>
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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>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
16px"><br>
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