[Xymon] Fwd: Re: Can't match alerts.cfg rules

[Another Xymon User]

Ah. It's the DNS affinity thing. Small shop, pro bono support, no split
DNS. Putting the host in /etc/hosts made the alert fire. I know what I
need to do. 

-------- Original Message -------- 

		SUBJECT:
 		Re: [Xymon] Can't match alerts.cfg rules

		DATE:
 		2016-11-06 16:55

		FROM:
 		Jake <xymon at epperson.homelinux.net>

		TO:
 		xymon at xymon.com

 On 2016-11-06 1:09, J.C. Cleaver wrote: 

> On Sat, November 5, 2016 1:14 pm, Jake wrote:
> 
>> I have 4.3.27-1.el7.terabithia running on Centos 7, and can't get any rules in alerts.cfg.to match and fire an alert. I have in hosts.cfg: 192.168.2.31 phone-sales # conn In alerts.cfg: HOST=phone-sales COLOR=red MAIL somebody at gmail.com ## Wildcard rule HOST=%^.*$ COLOR=red MAIL somebody at gmail.com Made the wildcard rule a regexp because "HOST=*" wasn't working, and added the host-specific rule because no wildcard was working. But if I trigger a red on host phone-sales, in alert.log I see: Checking criteria for host 'phone-sales', which is not yet defined; some alerts may not immediately fire What am I missing? I retired a year and a half ago, and have been out of practice, so feel free to start with "You dummy...."
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can you show the output of xymoncmd xymond_alert --dump-config ? That
> would help us see what xymond_alert itself is interpreting things as.
> 
> The "Checking criteria for host..." should only apply when xymond_alert
> (via loadhosts) hasn't reloaded the hosts.cfg yet (in this instance). That
> entry looks normal, though. Does the error get shown every time
> xymond_alert starts up?
> 
> Regards,
> -jc
> 
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[root at hccmon xymon]# xymoncmd xymond_alert --dump-config
 120 HOST=phone-sales COLOR=red 
 MAIL somebody at gmail.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 

 123 HOST=%^.* COLOR=red 
 MAIL somebody at gmail.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 

Sorry, I was misinterpreting the "Checking criteria..." message as being
triggered by the red code. Perhaps I'm not waiting long enough for the
alert to fire before deciding it's not working. But the message is not
showing every time I "systemctl restart xymonlaunch.service". Will get
back to this in the morning, EST. 

Thanks, 

Jake 

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