[Xymon] client-local.cfg and xymon-4.3.15

[Dominique Frise]

I don't agree.
The regexp support should not brake previous configuration.

BTW, the new man-page has not changed regarding the section name :

...
FILE FORMAT
        The file is divided into sections, delimited by  "[name]"  lines.
        A  section  name  can  be either an operating system identifier -
        linux, solaris, hp-ux, aix, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, darwin - or
        a  hostname.  When  deciding  which  section to send to a client,
        Xymon will first look for a section named after the  hostname  of
        the  client; if such a section does not exist, it will look for a
        section named by the operating system of the client. So  you  can
        configure special configurations for individual hosts, and have a
        default configuration for all other hosts of a certain type.

        It will often be practical to use regular expressions  for  host-
        names.  To do this you must use

            [host=<expression>]

        where  <expression>  is a Perl-compatible regular expression. The
        same kind of matching can be done on  operating  system  or  host
        class, using

            [os=<expresssion>]
            [class=<expression>]

        Apart  from  the section delimiter, the file format is free-form,
        or rather it is defined by the tools that make use of the config-
        uration.
...


Dominique

On 02/05/2014 06:22 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, the fix to allow regex in client-local.cfg also
> will append all matches as a single entity.  If it has several similar
> entries, it will munge them together.  Check out the new
> client-local.cfg man page.  You might be able to change monk entry to
> [host=monk] and see if that returns what you expect.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Dominique Frise
> <dominique.frise at unil.ch <mailto:dominique.frise at unil.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     We updated our xymon-server from version 4.3.11 to 4.3.15.
>     The client-local.cfg does not seem to be handled the way it was.
>
>     Example :
>
>     [linux]
>     log:/var/log/messages:10240
>     ignore MARK
>     trigger Error|error|ERROR
>
>     [monk]
>     log:/var/log/messages:102400
>     ignore mDNSPlatformSendUDP\sgot\__serror\s22
>     ignore read_data
>     log:/var/log/logwatch:10240
>
>
>     Which mean that we want to overwrite default linux settings for
>     "monk" client.
>
>     But there is the resulting content of logfetch.monk.cfg on the client :
>
>     [xymon at monk tmp]$ cat logfetch.monk.cfg
>     log:/var/log/messages:10240
>     ignore MARK
>     trigger Error|error|ERROR
>     log:/var/log/messages:102400
>     ignore mDNSPlatformSendUDP\sgot\__serror\s22
>     ignore read_data
>     log:/var/log/logwatch:10240
>
>
>     The default settings are there too !?
>     Did we missed a patch/advice for this ?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Dominique
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