[Xymon] possible bug with combostatus when hostnames start with numbers?

[Gavin Stone-Tolcher]

I have some devices with names like "01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au".

With a combo.cfg entry like this:
    prndc2.nexus.comboalert.fping = ( 01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping && 01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping ) >=1

The resulting test produces output like so:
    (01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping&&01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping)>=1 = (01\-0042\-1&&01\-0042\-1)>=1 = 0
    clear dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping
    clear dc2-d8-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping

    Errors occurred during evaluation:
    compute((01\-0042\-1&&01\-0042\-1)>=1) returned error 4


It looks like it is having a problem with those names for some reason, truncating the name in the first part of the result
    "dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au" instead of "01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au"
and then compute bit having just "01\-0042\-1"?


Whereas simply prefixing the letter "a" to the hostname entries like so "a01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au" :
    prndc2.nexus.comboalert.fping = ( a01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping && a01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping ) >=1

Produces the expected output:
    (a01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping&&a01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping)>=1 = (1&&1)>=1 = 1
    green a01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping
    green a01-0042-dc2-d8-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping


Any ideas? It looks like a bug to me.


Cheers,
Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident Response
Information Technology Services
The University of Queensland
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