[hobbit] Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented
T.J. Yang
tj_yang at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 15 17:43:54 CEST 2008
Hi, SebA
Would mind go one step further ?
get a hobbit developer account from Henrik to update the manpages ?
T.J. Yang
From: spa at syntec.co.uk
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:25:16 +0100
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll certainly give that some
thought. Comma-separated is just the easiest when it comes to converting
my existing bbwarnrules.cfg file as I can just select the hosts and replace
spaces with commas. Going forward I had thought of using macros, but I'll
look at PAGEs too.
SebA
From: jm54601 at yahoo.com
[mailto:jm54601 at yahoo.com]
Sent: 15 October 2008
16:03
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit]
Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not
documented
I struggled with the same thing through a lot of trial and error.
On a related note, I highly recommend trying to get away from using a comma
separated list as it's a nightmare to maintain. I'm working toward using
the PAGE token, where a list of hosts on a given page alerts a group, so
you're effectively grouping your hosts based on the support team
responsible. There will still be exceptions, but if you can generalize
alerts so all the hosts on a given page can alert the same way, you'll save
time and avoid the possibility of a host not having an alert configured.
Just my 2 cents.
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Original Message ----
From: SebA <spa at syntec.co.uk>
To:
hobbit at hswn.dk
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:43:35 AM
Subject:
[hobbit] Comma-separated lists of hostnames, etc. in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not
documented
Comma-separated lists of hostnames in
hobbit-alerts.cfg is not documented, so maybe we could add something like this
(taken from http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html) to http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html:
HOST=targetstring Rule matching a host by the hostname.
"targetstring"
is either a
comma-separated list of hostnames (from the bb-hosts
file),
"*" to
indicate "all hosts", or a Perl-compatible regular
expression.
E.g.
"HOST=dns.foo.com,www.foo.com"
identifies two specific
hosts;
"HOST=%www.*.foo.com
EXHOST=www-test.foo.com" matches all hosts with
a
name beginning with "www",
except the "www-test" host.
Adding an example that used the comma-separated
syntax to http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-alerts.html and hobbit-alerts.cfg (sample) files would also be
good.
And, actually, maybe something to say that the
comma-separated syntax can be used in all XXX= places (except, presumably,
REPEAT) and also for the recipient. One really shouldn't have to work
this basic stuff out using:
$ ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test
!
We definitely need some more
complex examples. Maybe someone who has a complex and varied
hobbit-alerts.cfg can post some sanitized examples that someone can commit to
SVN?
Many thanks,
SebA
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