[hobbit] Ignoring proc alerts in the default section

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Nov 1 22:36:45 CET 2006


On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:15:25PM -0500, James B Horwath wrote:
> I have a default section in my /etc/hobbit/hobbit-alerts.cfg with 
> something like this:
>  
>         PROC    my_process
>         PROC   his_process


Putting PROC tests in your default section is generally a bad idea.

> I have a couple of servers that do not run the processes my_process or 
> his_process and as a result they are showing errors because of the 
> definitions in my DEFAULT section.  How can I have a server ignore the 
> default section?  If I have 99.9% of the hosts using the 2 process and 
> only 2 or 3 which don't, any suggestions on how to handle it?

HOST=* EXHOST=%host1|host2
         PROC    my_process
         PROC   his_process



Henrik




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