[Xymon] alert configuration wildcard HOST

[Bakkies Gatvol]

Thanks!!!   john.thurston

what I really really wanted t=test d=dev p=prod etc

 *** Match with 'HOST=%^usphl0(p|d|t)sas\w+ SERVICE=disk_app' ***



> To: xymon at xymon.com
> From: john.thurston at alaska.gov
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:00:47 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] alert configuration wildcard HOST
> 
> On 7/27/2016 8:38 AM, Bakkies Gatvol wrote:
> > This works
> >
> >
> > HOST=%_ip_printer SERVICE=conn
> >
> > matches any host ending in %_ip_printer
> 
> No, the percent character is not a wildcard. It indicates that what 
> follows is a regular expression. Yours matches any host _containing_ 
> "_ip_printer"
> 
> http://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.8/perlre.html
> 
> > what I want to match now
> >
> > usphl0tsasdbv0
> > usphl0tsasvav1
> 
> HOST=%foo.
> 
> Would match any host containing "foo" followed by any other character. 
> That gets close to what you want in the fewest characters. But it will 
> match "food" just as well as "shesafool" or "ofoo8".
> 
> HOST=%^foo.
> 
> requires that the host name begin with "foo" and is followed by any 
> character. This would match "food", and "foo8".
> 
> host=%^foo\d
> 
> requires the hostname begins with "foo" and is followed by a digit.
> 
> 
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> 
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> John.Thurston at alaska.gov
> Enterprise Technology Services
> Department of Administration
> State of Alaska
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