[xymon] hobbit-clients.cfg, regex and IGNORE

[Stef Coene]

On Friday 24 December 2010, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Was hoping someone could help me understand how these definitions in
> hobbit-clients.cfg:
> 
> 	DISK    %^/a    IGNORE
>         DISK    %^/a/.* IGNORE
> 
> ...excluded these filesystems in the disk test:
> 
> njmsa/AppArchive        10G   8.2G   1.8G    83%    /AppArchive
> /dev/md/dsk/d101       1.9G   1.3G   631M    68%    /apps_marcy
> /dev/md/dsk/d103       1.9G   1.3G   476M    74%    /apps
> 
> What I'm trying to exclude are filesystems /a and /a/* (like /a/var,
> /a/usr, etc.).
> 
> Hopefully someone's regex-fu is superior to mine. Thanks in advance!
For /a, you can try:
DISK    %^/a$    IGNORE

Also try to install txt2reg.  This is a command line utility to build up 
regular expressions.


Stef