[hobbit] Alert macro syntax

[Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com]

Thanks, that worked nicely.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:36 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alert macro syntax


On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:13:30AM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote:

>  I could use some help with the syntax for alert using macros. I tried 
> defining servers as such:
> 
> $GROUP1=server1 server2 server3
> $SYSADMIN=kevin at domain.com
> HOST=$GROUP1
>         MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red REPEAT=15m RECOVERED

This is wrong.

When you use macros, you must remember that it's purely a text substitution.

If you did not use macros, you'd write the rule as

   HOST=%server1|server2|server3

So to do that with a macro, the macro must be defined exactly like that.
Thus:

 $GROUP1=%server1|server2|server3
 $SYSADMIN=kevin at domain.com
 HOST=$GROUP1
         MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red REPEAT=15m RECOVERED


Henrik

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