[hobbit] hobbit-alerts.cfg -- Perl regex

[Robert Herron]

Moving the % fixed the problem.  Thanks for the help and tip.

On 11 Aug 2005 20:45:26 -0000, henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner) wrote: 

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:07:47PM -0300, Werner Michels (Ext Lists) wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> >       Please try change the HG definition as:
> >
> > $HG-WinSvrsCrit=%nyc(app1|dc1|dc2|ex1|ex03|fs1|fs2|time).domain.com
> >
> >       Observe that the "%" is the first char and this indicates that your using perl regex.
> >       With this change your host group should work fine.
> 
> Werner is right here - the "%" must be first, it's only mission is to
> tell Hobbit to treat this as a regular expression instead of a simple
> text string.
> 
> For debugging regular expressions, I routinely use the info-page
> display (which shows clearly whether a host/test is matched or not),
> but also the "pcretest" tool that comes with the pcre library. Like
> this:
> 
> $ pcretest
> PCRE version 4.5 01-December-2003
> 
>   re> /nyc(app1|dc1|dc2|ex1|ex03|fs1|fs2|time).domain.com/
>   data> nycdc2.domain.com
>     0: nycdc2.domain.com
>     1: dc2
>   data> nycdc4.domain.com
>     No match
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Robert Herron
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