Wildcard not working in service escalations ?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Mihai Tanasescu wrote:

> define serviceescalation{
>        host_name               *
>        service_description     Host-UP
>        first_notification      3
>        last_notification       0
>        notification_interval   30
>        contact_groups          admins,managers
>        }
>
> But when I try to start nagios it says:
>
> Error: Could not find any host matching '*'
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service
> escalation (config file '/usr/local/etc/nagios/escalations.cfg',
> starting on line 2)
>
> If instead of host_name *  I specify a certain host out of the ones I'm
> monitoring, everything works alright.
>
> The nagios I'm running is 2.9.1 and after googling a bit I saw that it
> should support wildcards here.
>
> I have use_regexp_matching=1 enabled in nagios.cfg (and regexps work for
> everything except the escalations).

If you insist on using regex in the config I tink you should use them.

The character * all by itself is not valid as regex. So you need to change 
it to .* instead to be a proper regex.

Hugo.

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