Regex Services?
Goksie Learner
perlskuul at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 00:46:02 CEST 2007
Kerry Milestone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to build a services.cfg using regular expressions. I have
> enabled the regex options within nagios.cfg
>
> The string I am trying is the following:
>
>
> and I have checked my regular expressions with:
> echo 'host1.public.going' | perl -ne 'print if
> /^(host|gost)\d{1,2}\.\w+\.going$/'
> echo 'gost32.private.going' | perl -ne 'print if
> /^(host|gost)\d{1,2}\.\w+\.going$/'
>
> yet, I always get when running nagios -v nagios.cfg:
> Error: Could not find any host matching '^(host|gost)\d{1'
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service
> (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/services.cfg', starting on line
>
> I've tried various other ways of it, and one thing I seem to have
> noticed is that Nagios seems to parse only square brackets in an
> expression. I have compiled a version of the binary with the embedded
> perl, but this did not help. I have tried posix expressons too, but not
> much luck either.
>
> Has anyone one else had some luck with regular expressions within the
> services.cfg file? I have a bunch of hosts all running identical services.
>
> I am running Nagios 2.9, both on a Linux platform and FreeBSD.
>
> Many thanks,
> Kerry.
>
>
>
>
>
>
^(host|gost)\d{1,2}\.\w+\.$
change it to
^(host|gost)\d{1,2}\.\w+\.\w+$
and test again.
Learner
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