[Xymon] drop multiple hosts with wildcard

[John Thurston]

On 1/22/2019 8:57 AM, Kris Springer wrote:
> Is there a way to drop all host data for multiple hosts using a 
> wildcard?  I know how to drop a single host and erase it's data, but I 
> have a long list of IP Cameras that I changed in my hosts file and 
> instead of dropping each individual hostname I'd like to drop all hosts 
> that start with 'Cam'.  I attempted this but it didn't remove anything.
> 
> ./xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop Cam*"

No. You can't use wild cards here. It's dangerous to even think about it.

In our installation, I've written a couple of wrapper scripts which 
accept multiple host-names as parameters and loop through them. As a 
one-off, you can do

for i in foo bar baz; do ./xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop $i"; done

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