[hobbit] how to define a catch-all in hobbit-alerts.cfg

Bill Wagner william.wagner at ipacc.com
Thu Oct 22 15:22:59 CEST 2009


I agree that would simplify things.  However we are using (inherited 
from Big Brother) fairly heterogeneous PAGEs.
Bill

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [hobbit] how to define a catch-all in hobbit-alerts.cfg
From: Thomas Kähn <tkaehn at netcologne.de>
To: hobbit at hswn.dk <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Date: 10/21/2009 1:29 AM
> Hi Bill,
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:50:08PM +0200, Bill Wagner wrote:
>   
>> I have rules defined for many of my 300+ hosts ( a mix of windows and 
>> unix servers scattered throughout, and interleaved across,  multiple 
>> pages.  I want to define a default rule for hosts so that, for example, 
>> every conn alert goes to my unix administrators.  I have experimented 
>> with several solutions which do not yield the desired result.  e.g.:
>>
>> HOST=* EXHOST=<>  # I can't explicitly list all hosts (too many) and 
>> tried macros consisting of wildcard host names
>>    MAIL ...
>>
>> HOST=* EXHOST=<>
>>     MAIL ... UNMATCHED
>>
>> if I use only HOST=* then I end up with multiple (sometimes redundant) 
>> recipients for some hosts and no recipients for hosts not previously 
>> explicitly defined.
>>     
>
> simply group the servers on different pages and match using PAGE=...
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>   


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