[hobbit] hosts wildcards in clients-local.cfg

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:29:11PM +0000, Szymon Bakowski wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:34:12PM +0000, Szymon.Bakowski (at)
> ladbrokes.co.uk wrote:
> >> Just wanted to ask a quick question (went through the archive, but haven't
> >> found an answer for my question):
> >>
> >> Is it possible to use host wildcards in clients-local.cfg file ? They do
> >> work for me for example in hobbit-clients.cfg but it seems that I can not
> >> make it work in clients-local.cfg. In hobbit-clients.cfg I am using for
> >> example as follows:
> >>
> >> HOST=%www..\.foo\.com
> >>
> >> but it doesn't work in clients-local.cfg.
> >
> >No, you cannot.
> >
> >The way around this is to use host "classes". The default class for a
> >host is the name of the operating system - that's why the "[linux]" and
> >"[hpux]" etc. sections work. You can change the class of a host either
> >by configuring it with the CLASS:classname setting in bb-hosts, or by
> >specifying the class on the client when you start the Hobbit client.
> >
> >It is a bit annoying that you cannot use regexp's in client-local.cfg.
> >Might be something I change.
> 
> 
> Thank you Henrik for your reply. Classes did help indeed. Can I use
> them in other config files like for example in hobbit-clients.cfg ?

Yes, both hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg support a CLASS=...
way of selecting hosts.


Regards,
Henrik