I am also interested in hearing more about this... I had no luck trying to use forward assertions in order to omit a few select hosts from a service definition. Thank you, Christian. --- Steve Miller <smiller@co.slo.ca.us> Network Engineer Information Technology Department County of San Luis Obispo 805-781-5097 <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>Christian Hedegaard <christian.hedegaard@trustcommerce.com> Sent by: nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net 08/18/2006 11:44 AM <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>[Nagios-users] regular expression matching.</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt> The Nagios documentation relating to the "regular expression" matching seems very thin to me. And not quite clear. It appears, by example, that the only regular expressions you can use are "*" and "?", which I would just consider wildcard matching and not regular expressions. Regardless, can anything else be used as far as these "regular expressions" are concerned? The documentation uses the examples of "host *", and I am assuming that I can do something like "host *-edu" or "host tc-??-00". And can these regular expressions be used everywhere in the configs? For instance, we have an 110K escalations config file that could in theory be reduced to just: define serviceescalation{ host_name * service_description * first_notification 3 last_notification 0 contact_groups on-duty-pagers,off-duty-pagers,operations-email notification_interval 30 } Right now we have one unique entry for every service_description on every host_name. So is the above correct? would that work? can anything at all be used besides "*" and "?" for matching? Thanks! P.S. Are there any plans to clarify the documentation in this regards? -- Christian Hedegaard-Schou Sr. Systems Administrator TrustCommerce 2 Park Plaza, Suite 350 Irvine, CA 92614 (949) 387 - 3747 christian.hedegaard@trustcommerce.com http://www.trustcommerce.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </tt>