[Xymon] regular expressions in analysis.cfg

[Phil Crooker]

I'm having a problem with spaces in regular expressions when trying to IGNORE log entries. So for the line:

warning - 2013/03/04 12:52:21 - BigBrotherXymonClient (17) - The agent externals generated this event message : No externals have been specified

  works:           LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE=%Client.*17
  works:           LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE=%Client.*[0-9]7
  works:           LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE=Client\ \(17
  works:           LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE=No\ externals\ have\ been\ specified  


  doesn't work:   LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE=%"Client \([0-9]7"
  doesn't work:   LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE="Client \(17"
  doesn't work:   LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE="Client (17"
  doesn't work:   LOG eventlog_application %^warning   COLOR=red IGNORE="No externals have been specified"
  

Is this correct? If so, why no spaces??? It is very confusing as spaces are used elsewhere, eg I can have spaces in a DISK name in analysis.cfg: DISK "/yada yada" 90 95, and spaces can be used in various places in hosts.cfg.


thanks, Phil
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