Wildcard not working in service escalations ?

[Mihai Tanasescu]

Mihai Tanasescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I've just set up a service escalation like this:
>
> define serviceescalation{
>         host_name               *
>         service_description     Host-UP
>         first_notification      3
>         last_notification       0
>         notification_interval   30
>         contact_groups          admins,managers
>         }
>
> But when I try to start nagios it says:
>
> Error: Could not find any host matching '*'
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service 
> escalation (config file '/usr/local/etc/nagios/escalations.cfg', 
> starting on line 2)
>
> If instead of host_name *  I specify a certain host out of the ones I'm 
> monitoring, everything works alright.
>
> The nagios I'm running is 2.9.1 and after googling a bit I saw that it 
> should support wildcards here.
>
> I have use_regexp_matching=1 enabled in nagios.cfg (and regexps work for 
> everything except the escalations).
>
>
> Any ideas / am I doing something wrong  ?
>
>
>
>
>
>   

Can anyone help me here please ..if you are currently using wildcard 
based escalations ?



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