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

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

On Thursday 07 February 2008, Allan Spencer wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> Dont normally bump things but still having issues with this and hoping
> someone can give me a clue
>
> Allan
>

If you put the Host=* entries in the DEFAULT section, I believe that should of 
worked. But anyways the HOST=* definition is wrong, I think it needs to be 
HOST=%.*.