Wildcards in hostgroup definitions

[Assaf Flatto]

  Why do you have the '.' before the '*' ?

is that on purpose or just  a tab representation ?

Try removing the '.' and test again .

Assaf


On 21/10/10 17:07, olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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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