[hobbit] How to totally disable alerts for a particular host?

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:19:35PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand the docs here...  is something like this
> correct?   

[snip]

> HOST=lp4.phys.mcw.edu
>         IGNORE

Looks right, this will drop all alerts for this host.

> ##HOST=%^pr*.hmgc.mcw.edu
> ##      IGNORE

I know you commented this out, but I just want to say that
you've probably hit one of the common "gotchas" in regular
expressions: If you want to match "anything", you must use
".*" - not just "*". So to match any hostname beginning with
"pr" and ending in ".hmgc.mcw.edu" you would use 
   HOST=%^pr.*.hmgc.mcw.edu
or if you want to be really picky (because the dots in
".hmgc.mcw.edu" will really match any character:
   HOST=%^pr.*\.hmgc\.mcw\.edu

The "*" in a reg. exp. means "zero or more occurrences of
the previous". So "pr*" will match "p" (zero r's), as well
as "pr", "prr", "prrr", "prrrrrrrr" etc.


Regards,
Henrik