check_snmp with regular expression

[Martin Melin]

It looks like you're trying to match "some string", no matter where it
appears in the document. In that case, anchoring to line beginning and end
is just extra work. Simply match on "some string", and you're good to go.

The asterisk is a modifier to the dot, so it needs to come after that. So
the regex you pasted should probably be "^.*some string.*$", but this is
functionally equivalent to "some string".

Regards,
Martin Melin

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:18 PM, shadih rahman <shadhin71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> List,
>    I am trying to use check_snmp plugin with the following regular
> expression and I am getting an error, can someone point out what am I doing
> wrong.  Thanks
>
>
>
> /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -H hostname -C community -o
> .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0 -r "^*.some string*$"
>
> Could Not Compile Regular Expressioncheck_snmp: Could not parse arguments
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Shadhin Rahman
>
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