FW: error message "hostgroup has no members"

[Ethan Galstad]

The regex() C function might be enough to do the trick for basic 
matching, without requiring another external library.  I'll look into 
this when I start coding on 2.0

On 20 Nov 2002 at 9:17, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

> With Postfix, you have the option of downloading PCRE (Perl Compatible
> Regular Expressions) and having it included in your build (depending on your
> configure options).  I don't suppose this sort of approach would be viable
> for Nagios...?
> 
> Alternatively, a config file preprocessor which takes whatever regexes and
> builds out an extra config file or two (regenerated each time the preflight
> check is done).
> 
> Food for thought.
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ethan Galstad [mailto:nagios at nagios.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:57 PM
> > To: nagios-users
> > Subject: Re: FW: [Nagios-users] error message "hostgroup has 
> > no members"
> > 
> > 
> > An asterisk (*) is simply used to indicate all hosts, services, 
> > whatever.  What you're trying to do (pattern matching) is not yet 
> > supported.  So basically you can't use "HOST*" to specify all hosts 
> > that have names starting with "HOST".
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 19 Nov 2002 at 14:52, Anoop Atre wrote:
> > 
> > > OK the message below was for the group...and now that Mike McClure
> > > mentioned I do remember we had that option but it didn't 
> > work do we need
> > > to make any other changes to have say NT* to work in hostgroups.cfg?
> > > 
> > > ~
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Anoop Atre [mailto:anoopa at hotmail.com] 
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:47 PM
> > > To: 'Bishop, Dean'
> > > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] error message "hostgroup has no members"
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think you are right you can't do wild cards in the 
> > hostgroups.cfg file
> > > (I just tried it on my setup).
> > > 
> > > members           NT*,grpwise*,novell* >>> WRONG
> > > 
> > > members           NT-1,NT-2,grpwise-1,grpwise-2,novell-1,novell-2
> > >  >>> RIGHT
> > > 
> > > ~
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > > > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> > > > Of Bishop, Dean
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:00 PM
> > > > To: 'Jim Lane '; 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net '
> > > > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] error message "hostgroup has 
> > no members"
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >  i don't think that you can use asterisks in the members 
> > directive of
> > > > hostgroup definitions.
> > > > 
> > > >   Someone correct me if i am wrong.
> > > > 
> > > > regards,
> > > > dean
> > > 
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> > Ethan Galstad,
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