May be a bug when using wildcards in some directives in serviceescalations definition

[Estagiario TI Compal]

Im running Nagios 2.0rc1.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
Sent: Thu 2/9/2006 6:19 PM
To: Estagiario TI Compal
Cc: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] May be a bug when using wildcards in some directives in serviceescalations definition
 
Estagiario TI Compal wrote:
> Im trying to make a escalation that aggregates all services and machines. Like this:
> 
> define serviceescalation{
>         host_name               *
>         service_description     *
>         first_notification      4
>         last_notification       0
>         notification_interval   30
>         contact_groups  pt.compal.it.systems
> }
> and I got the following error:
> Error: Could not find any host matching '*'
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service escalation
> 
> If I make:
> define serviceescalation{
>         host_name               alg*
>         service_description     *
>         first_notification      4
>         last_notification       0
>         notification_interval   30
>         contact_groups  pt.compal.it.systems
> }
> Error: Could not find a service matching host name 'rterm-mpls.compal.pt' and description '*'
> Error: Could not expand services specified in service escalation
> 
> how can alg* match with rterm-mpls.compal.pt ?
> 
> Next, if i make:
> define serviceescalation{
>         host_name               alg*
>         service_description     a*
>         first_notification      4
>         last_notification       0
>         notification_interval   30
>         contact_groups  pt.compal.it.systems
> }
> 
> the configurations passes with nagios -v option, but there is a problem: i dont have any service_description starting with char 'a'.
> 
> This is relly a bug? i think so!


Me too.


> It can be solved?
> 
> 

Most likely. What version of Nagios are you running?

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