[hobbit] hobbit-alerts.cfg regex/MACRO problem - need help

[Charles Jones]

I'm still having this problem. If anyone has any ideas I'm open to 
suggestions :)

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:
> I am trying to use a regex macro to exclude a number of hosts from an 
> alert.  Here is the one I was using at first:
> $UNUSED_PROD=%prod-app-(2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|18|20|21|22|23|24)|prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)
>
>   
> Here is how I am using it for the actual alert definition:
> HOST=%(prod-.*) SERVICE=* EXHOST=$UNUSED_PROD
>      MAIL $PRIMARY color=red REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms
>      MAIL $SECONDARY color=red DURATION>20 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms
>
>   
> I ran into a problem with the host "prod-app-12" matching the regex. I 
> realized this was because I was not terminating the numbers, so I 
> changed my variable to:
>
> $UNUSED_PROD=%prod-app-(2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|18|20|21|22|23|24)$|prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$
>
>   
> This SHOULD work according to online regex testing tools, and I also 
> at Henriks advice, verified it using "pcretest":
> $ pcretest
> PCRE version 6.6 06-Feb-2006
>
>   re> /prod-app-(2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|18|20|21|22|23|24)$|prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$/
> data> prod-web-12
> No match
> data> prod-web-11
>  0: prod-web-11
>  1: <unset>
>  2: 11
> data>
>   
> As seen above, the host "prod-web-12" does NOT match, but 
> "prod-web-11" DOES, which is exactly how I want it.
>
> *However, when I use this in hobbit-alerts.cfg. I do not get the 
> expected behavior. Instead, ALL hosts match, according to pages sent 
> out and from viewing the "info" section.  *The strange thing is, 
> according to hobbitd_alert --test, the hostname was successfully 
> excluded, but clicking on the "info" column for hosts that are 
> supposed to be excluded reveals that they are still configured to alert.
>
> ../bin/hobbitd_alert --test prod-web-11 procs --color-red
> 00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 send_alert prod-web-11:procs state Paging
> 00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 *** Match with 'HOST=%(prod-.*) SERVICE=*' ***
> 00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Matching host:service:page 'prod-web-11:procs:PROD/PRODWEB' against rule line 170
> 00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 *** Match with 'MAIL $PRIMARY color=red REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms' ***
> 00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Mail alert with command 'mail xxxxx at cingularme.com'
> 00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Failed 'MAIL $SECONDARY color=red DURATION>20 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE format=sms' (min. duration 0<1200)
> ...
> 00009993 2006-11-09 21:48:30 Failed 'HOST=* SERVICE=* EXHOST=$UNUSED_PROD' (hostname excluded)
>
> * Another thing, when I do the same test as above, using hostname 
> "prod-web-12", which is a host that should NOT be excluded, 
> hobbitd_alert still says that it was excluded (same last line of 
> output as the prod-web-11 test above).
>
> I have also tried enclosing the regex in quotes, which didn't work either.
>
> If anyone has any insight, please let me know. I have contacted Henrik 
> about this, but I believe he misread my email, as he suggested that I 
> add $ to the regex, which I had already tried...so now I am hoping 
> that he or someone else sees this message and can see what Im doing wrong.
>
> -Charles
>

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