[Xymon] Weird problem with hobbit-clients.cfg

[henrik at hswn.dk]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:14:43 -0500, "Neal, Jonathan W"
<wes.neal at verizon.com> wrote:
> I have the following in my hobbit-clients.cfg file.
> 
> DEFAULT
> UP      1h
> DISK    "%^/cdrom.*/" IGNORE
> DISK    "%^/mnt.*/" IGNORE
> 
> I do not have an individual HOST line for the server in question, but it
> comes back red with the below on this particular server.  
> 
> red /cdrom/sol_10_509_sparc (100% used) has reached the PANIC level
(95%)
> 
> Any idea why this might be happening.  I have these same lines on some
> specific HOSTS in the file and they work fine, but I wanted to switch it
to
> the DEFAULT and doesn't seem to want to work for me.


It is generally not a good idea to put such rules in the DEFAULT section;
it really is meant only for setting the default thresholds.

Instead, put these in a "HOST=*" section right above the DEFAULT section.


Regards,
Henrik