Help with different hostnames that are conflicting

[Paul Archer]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, George Bryan wrote:

> This problem is happening again on me. This time with a hostgroup that
> is a substring of another one. Lets imagine the hostgroup a is
> location.siteI and hostgroup b is location.siteII,  some service
> definitions applied to hostgroup a, are also wrongfully applied to
> hostgroup b.
>
What are your settings in nagios.cfg for the folowing params?

# REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCHING
# This option controls whether or not regular expression matching
# takes place in the object config files.  Regular expression
# matching is used to match host, hostgroup, service, and service
# group names/descriptions in some fields of various object types.
# Values: 1 = enable regexp matching, 0 = disable regexp matching

use_regexp_matching=1



# "TRUE" REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCHING
# This option controls whether or not "true" regular expression
# matching takes place in the object config files.  This option
# only has an effect if regular expression matching is enabled
# (see above).  If this option is DISABLED, regular expression
# matching only occurs if a string contains wildcard characters
# (* and ?).  If the option is ENABLED, regexp matching occurs
# all the time (which can be annoying).
# Values: 1 = enable true matching, 0 = disable true matching

use_true_regexp_matching=0


Paul



> On 4/6/06, George Bryan <georgiebryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, i have a nagios setup with a fair lot of hostnames. While
>> adding some more hostnames from my local infrastructure i stumbled
>> upon two hostnames that are very similar.
>> 
>> Example
>> Host 1:  host1.domain.com
>> Host 2: host2.domain.com
>> and in a different location we have:
>> Host 3: subhost1.domain.com
>> Host 4:  subhost2.domain.com
>> 
>> Host 3 and 4 were added after Host 1 and 2, everything was fine before
>> adding them. But after adding we did a config check before restarting
>> nagios and the following error came up.
>> 
>> Nagios  2.0
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
>> Last Modified: 02-07-2006
>> License: GPL
>> 
>> Reading configuration data...
>> 
>> Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
>> 
>> Checking services...
>>         Checked 1624 services.
>> Checking hosts...
>>         Checked 372 hosts.
>> Checking host groups...
>>         Checked 122 host groups.
>> Checking service groups...
>>         Checked 0 service groups.
>> Checking contacts...
>>         Checked 22 contacts.
>> Checking contact groups...
>>         Checked 15 contact groups.
>> Checking service escalations...
>> Error: Service 'Location 2 - fPing' on host ' subhost1.domain.com'
>> specified in service escalation is not defined anywhere!
>> Error: Service 'Location 2 - fPing' on host 'subhost1.domain.com'
>> specified in service escalation is not defined anywhere!
>> Error: Service 'Location 2 - fPing' on host 'subhost1.domain.com'
>> specified in service escalation is not defined anywhere!
>> Error: Service 'Location 2 - fPing' on host ' subhost2.domain.com'
>> specified in service escalation is not defined anywhere!
>> Error: Service 'Location 2 - fPing' on host 'subhost2.domain.com'
>> specified in service escalation is not defined anywhere!
>> Error: Service 'Location 2 - fPing' on host 'subhost2.domain.com'
>> specified in service escalation is not defined anywhere!
>>         Checked 4878 service escalations.
>> Checking service dependencies...
>>         Checked 0 service dependencies.
>> Checking host escalations...
>>         Checked 740 host escalations.
>> Checking host dependencies...
>>         Checked 0 host dependencies.
>> Checking commands...
>>         Checked 65 commands.
>> Checking time periods...
>>         Checked 6 time periods.
>> Checking extended host info definitions...
>>         Checked 0 extended host info definitions.
>> Checking extended service info definitions...
>>         Checked 1008 extended service info definitions.
>> Checking for circular paths between hosts...
>> Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
>> Checking global event handlers...
>> Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
>> Checking misc settings...
>> 
>> Total Warnings: 0
>> Total Errors:   6
>> 
>> 
>> The weird part is, if i remove the "domain.com" part from hosts 3 and
>> 4, config check works fine. But i really can't do this.
>> Can anyone shed me some light on this matter?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> George
>> 
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd_______________________________________________
> Nagios-users mailing list
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting 
> any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to 
> /dev/null
>

-- 
----------
# pwd
/loony/bin
----------



-------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null