Re: [hobbit] how to define a catch-all in hobbit-alerts.cfg

[Thomas Kähn <tkaehn (at) netcologne.de>]

Hi Bill,

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:50:08PM +0200, Bill Wagner wrote:
> I have rules defined for many of my 300+ hosts ( a mix of windows and 
> unix servers scattered throughout, and interleaved across,  multiple 
> pages.  I want to define a default rule for hosts so that, for example, 
> every conn alert goes to my unix administrators.  I have experimented 
> with several solutions which do not yield the desired result.  e.g.:
> 
> HOST=* EXHOST=<>  # I can't explicitly list all hosts (too many) and 
> tried macros consisting of wildcard host names
>    MAIL ...
> 
> HOST=* EXHOST=<>
>     MAIL ... UNMATCHED
> 
> if I use only HOST=* then I end up with multiple (sometimes redundant) 
> recipients for some hosts and no recipients for hosts not previously 
> explicitly defined.

simply group the servers on different pages and match using PAGE=...

Best regards
Thomas
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