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

["Sebastian" <spa (at) syntec.co.uk>]

Gary,
 
One way to clean up and simplify your alert rules is to use a (host group)
macro, as in http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/01/msg00287.html (but see also
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/01/msg00123.html for a tighter syntax) so
long as these macros can run across lines...
 
Sebastian


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From: Gary Baluha [mailto:gumby3203 (at) gmail.com] 
Sent: 17 March 2008 17:47
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Nesting rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg


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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