[hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg - Handling FILE rules

[Allan Spencer]

Allan Spencer wrote:
> Heya,
>
> Just been playing around with doing some FILE monitoring and having 
> issues with its processing order or its ignoring a host I want a 
> different setting for. Originally I defined the FILE checks in the 
> default section with the host1.acme.com above it but it wasn't working 
> so I tried setting a HOST=* one and putting it under there but I still 
> get the same thing. I have used it in the past for defining different 
> proc checks for hosts, different loads, and different disk usage on 
> partitions but never for FILE before.
>
> Basically want host1.acme.com to either not care about files at all or 
> make them 755 and all other hosts to be 644 for gcc and make (non exec)
>
> Can someone point me in the direction of what I might be doing wrong 
> as I THINK what I'm doing is right.
>
> Below is the config that I'm currently using. I am able to define 
> other checks under host1.acme.com and they work fine.
>
> HOST=host1.acme.com
>        FILE /usr/bin/make MODE=755
>        FILE /usr/bin/gcc MODE=755
> HOST=*
>        PROC ntpd
>        PROC cron
>        FILE /usr/bin/make MODE=644
>        FILE /usr/bin/gcc MODE=644
>
> DEFAULT
>        # These are the built-in defaults.
>        UP      15m
>        CLOCK 60
>        LOAD    5.0 10.0
>        DISK    * 90 95
>        MEMPHYS 100 101
>        MEMSWAP 65 80
>        MEMACT  90 97
>
> Allan
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Dont normally bump things but still having issues with this and hoping 
someone can give me a clue

Allan