<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Gonna answer my own question. looks like if I do .sa it works. Thanks, Steve <hr id="stopSpelling">From: a31modela@hotmail.com To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:36:18 -0400 Subject: [Nagios-users] A question on using a wildcard in a hostgroup.cfg file <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"> <style> .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} </style> I am trying to simplify my admin work for a large deployment we are doing right now of Nagios 3.2 Core in a SuSE Linux environment I have multiple hostgroups set up and wanted to use a wildcard in the member name since all of the devices that will be in a hostgroup are named the same except for the actual location part of the name. If I have each remote server listed explicitly ion the hostgroup file uder members, everything is fine. I turned on use_true_regexp_matching and use_regexp_matching and added this to my hostgroup.cfg file: define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name Remote_servers alias Remote Servers members *sa } I then did a verify of the nagios config & it replied with this: Error: Could not find any host matching '*sa' (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/hostgroups.cfg', starting on line 47) Error: Could not expand members specified in hostgroup (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/hostgroups.cfg', starting on line 47) I tried multiple variations with wildcards both "?" and "*" to no avail. If I STARTED the members list with the 1st couple of letters of the name of the hosts or just put only a " * " there, it works. Can anyone explain why I cant do this str*sa or str????sa or *sa but I can do str* or " * " All of the hosts are named as such : strXXXXsa - were XXXX is a 4 digit number for the server location Thanks, Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ 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 </body> </html>