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

["Stewart L" <stewartl42 (at) gmail.com>]

You could use macros...

$hg-pager=%(^hostA|$hostB|^hostC)
$hg-email=%%(hostD[0-9])

PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
     HOST=$hg-pager
          MAIL pager (at) somewhere.com
     HOST=$hg-email
          MAIL email (at) somewhere.com

This keeps all the clutter out of the rule sets.

Stewart


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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