Wildcards in hostgroup definitions

[olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com]

Thanks for checking it out, Duncan.  Here are the config snippets to illustrate 
the mystery:

define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name          ecomUs
        alias                   ecom servers - US
        members                 .*
}

- This works.  We get an ecomUs hostgroup with all our hosts.


define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name          ecomUs
        alias                    ecom servers - US
        hostgroup_members       .*
}

- This doesn't work.  We get this error after running a config verification: 
 "Error: Could not find member group '.*' specified in hostgroup (config file 
'/etc/nagios/conf.d/tier12/env-specific/vdev/hostgroup.d/ecomUs.cfg', starting 
on line 7)."

Cheers,
Erik


----- Original Message ----
From: Duncan Berriman <duncan at dcl.co.uk>
To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 2:11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Wildcards in hostgroup definitions

Hi Erik,

Appears to work just fine for me if I am testing your case correctly.

Perhaps you could post the config file (or snip of) that's causing the
issue.

Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com [mailto:olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 20 October 2010 22:45
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Wildcards in hostgroup definitions

Hi all -

Got a mystery regarding the use of regex matching that I hope someone on the
listserv might clear.  We have the appropriate config options to use regex,
and 
it works just fine for the members directive - ie. "members    .*" expands
just 
as we'd expect.  

But "hostgroup_members    .*" returns an error along the lines of "Could not

find member group '.*' specified in hostgroup....", leading us to believe
that Nagios is simply ignoring regex matching for the hostgroup_members
directive. 
Anyone know if we're off our rockers, or if Nagios really does handle
things this way?

Thanks,
Erik Larkin


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