Antwort: Regular Expression Expansion

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Ingo Lantschner wrote:

> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 03.05.2006 05:13:58:
>
> > #dependent_service_description   ^Tun.*-(?:Chattanooga|Midlothian)$
> > ...
> >
> > The commented line generates errors on pre-flight check.  It's almost as
> > if it cannot handle the alternation (|).  Have I mangled the regular
> > expression or is this a peculiarity of Nagios? Thanks - John
> Seems as if it is not clear, which flavor of Regex is suported in Nagios,
> I had a similar problem, and could not find a clear documentation about
> the regex-suport in Nagios yet.
>
> F.e.
> [sw][0-9]{3}[a-z]{2,124}\.company\.net
> This should match any string starting with either s or w, followed by
> exactly 3 digits and a resonable number of characters plus the domain
> suffix.
> But it did not work. May be I am missing some backslashes?
>
> Please, can anyone point us to the right place?

How about sharing with us the exact settings used in nagios.cfg in this
regard?

Hugo.

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