[hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg DISK question

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:58:25PM +0200, Dirk Kastens wrote:
> 
> I have one host with some filesystems that are always 100% full. So I 
> wanted to disable the red alarm by setting the warnlevel and paniclevel 
> in the hobbit-clients.cfg to 101. The filesystems are /tsm/data, 
> /tsm/db1, and /tsm/db2.
> I tried the following definitions without success:
> 
> HOST=glaukos.x.y.z
> a) DISK /tsm/data 101 101
> 
> b) DISK /tsm/* 101 101
> 
> c) DISK %/tsm/* 101 101
> 
> d) DISK %^/tsm/* 101 101
> 
> e) DISK "%^/tsm/*" 101 101

You hit one of the intricacies of regular expressions. "*" means
"zero or one of the patterns immediately to the left", so
"/*" matches "/", "//", "///" etc.

What you want is
   DISK %^/tsm/.* 101 101

because ".*" matches any character, zero or more times.


Regards,
Henrik