Re: [hobbit] Nesting rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg

["Gary Baluha" <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com>]

That was one thought I had, but the current version of Hobbit doesn't
display the group alerting under the "info" column.  But I do currently have
some group alerts set up.  I'm just looking at ways to clean up and simplify
the alert rules.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Patrick Nixon <pnixon (at) gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you look into maybe making a host group out of them?
>
> I forget the hobbit term for them of course, but I know you can do
> groups, which is a regex or simple declaration.
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to nest rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg?  For example, can I
> do
> > something like this (indenting provided for readability):
> >
> > PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
> >      HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
> >           MAIL pager (at) somewhere.com
> >       HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
> >           MAIL email (at) somewhere.com
> >
> > Our alerting rules are starting to get kind of complex, and nesting
> alert
> > rules as above would make things easier.  I know I could do something
> like:
> >
> > PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
> >      MAIL pager (at) somewhere.com HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
> >      MAIL email (at) somewhere.com HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
> >
> > But some of the HOST= lists are very long (i.e. wrap across multiple
> lines),
> > so the above 2nd example would look a lot uglier than it does in this
> post
> > (which was simplified for readability).  If nesting rules won't work, I
> > wonder how much effort would be involved in adding this feature.
> >
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