Difficulty with wildcards in serviceescalation

[Andrew Laden]

There is a documentation error. You have to use real regex. A naked * by
itself is not a valid regex.

Try .*

-Andrew 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Ivan Fetch
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:25 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Difficulty with wildcards in serviceescalation
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
>     I'm having difficulties with wildcards in a 
> serviceescalation, running nagios 2.0-stable.  It seems like 
> the documentation discusses doing exactly this, so perhaps my 
> trying to get this to work last minute is causing me to 
> overlook something...  Any ideas?
> 
> 
> # Limit notifications to a max of 5, the last one notifying everyone.
> define serviceescalation{
> host_name       *
> service_description *
> first_notification 5
> last_notification 0
> notification_interval 0
> contact_groups everyone
> }
> 
> 
> 
>     When verifying the config I get:
> 
> "Reading configuration data...
> 
> Error: Could not find any host matching '*'
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in 
> service escalation (config file 
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/du/services.cfg', starting on line 154)"
> 
> 
> 
>     I have this set in /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg:
> use_regexp_matching=1
> use_true_regexp_matching=0
> # ... at the end of the file ...
> cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/du
> # (which is where the services.cfg is read, which is where the 
> #    serviceescalation is defined)
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ivan Fetch.
> '
> 
> 
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