[Xymon] Using "IGNORE" to exclude filesystems

[Novosielski, Ryan]

The usual screwup is having your config options showing up after the
DEFAULT section. DEFAULT must be last as it will catch everything else.

On 11/08/2012 05:35 PM, FORD Alan wrote:
> Do you have a “genric” alert that is set? It could be the one flagging
> the disks…
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> Something like
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> HOST=edm*
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>          DISK * 90
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> *From:*xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Mike Burger
> *Sent:* Friday, 9 November 2012 8:08 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Using "IGNORE" to exclude filesystems
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> I have a host for which I’d like to ignore 27 filesystems…they’re all at
> 97-100% full, and we expect them to be at that level…as such, there’s no
> reason for Xymon to be alarming on them.
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> Reading the analysis man page, I’ve tried a number of options to try to
> get this set of filesystems ignored, to no avail.
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> The hostname of the system is “edmprod” and the filesystems are /da01
> thru /da27.
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> The stanza I’ve tried to use is:
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> HOST=%edmprod.*
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>        DISK %^\/da* IGNORE
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> I’ve also tried:
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> HOST=edmprod
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>        DISK %^\/da* IGNORE
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> And
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> HOST=edmprod
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>        DISK /da01 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da02 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da03 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da04 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da05 IGNORE
> 
>        DISK /da06 IGNORE
> 
>        DISK /da07 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da08 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da09 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da10 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da11 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da12 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da13 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da14 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da15 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da16 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da17 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da18 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da19 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da20 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da21 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da22 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da23 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da24 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da25 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da26 IGNORE
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>        DISK /da27 IGNORE
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> I’d love to know what I’m doing wrong, here, if anyone is so inclined to
> assist me.
> 
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