Wildcards in hostgroup definitions

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Not sure if this is the same but...
I use members instead of hostgroup_members and it works for me

define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name  search-servers
        alias          Search Servers
        members         search.*
}


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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM,  <olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks again Duncan, it's good to at least know you got the same result.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Duncan Berriman <duncan at dcl.co.uk>
> To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 9:56:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Wildcards in hostgroup definitions
>
> Looks ok to me  - my test was
>
> define hostgroup{
>        hostgroup_name  ALL-SERVERS ; The name of the hostgroup
>        alias  ALL-SERVERS ; The name of the hostgroup
>        hostgroup_members         .*
>        }
>
> That parses ok but I end up with nothing in the group when I look at the
> nagios display.
>
> If I use individual members it works and they appear in the nagios display.
>
> Looks like it doesn't work at any rate.
>
> I just upgrade to the latest version as I was having issues with wildcards
> but I think that was more down to my understanding. I've been trying to use
> them for escalations. I think I finally got there (I think - time will tell)
> but I had to add a lot of service groups to make it work the way I wanted.
>
> Duncan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com [mailto:olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 21 October 2010 17:07
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Wildcards in hostgroup definitions
>
> Thanks for checking it out, Duncan.  Here are the config snippets to
> illustrate the mystery:
>
> define hostgroup {
>        hostgroup_name          ecomUs
>        alias                   ecom servers - US
>        members                 .*
> }
>
> - This works.  We get an ecomUs hostgroup with all our hosts.
>
>
> define hostgroup {
>        hostgroup_name          ecomUs
>        alias                    ecom servers - US
>        hostgroup_members       .*
> }
>
> - This doesn't work.  We get this error after running a config verification:
>
> "Error: Could not find member group '.*' specified in hostgroup (config
> file '/etc/nagios/conf.d/tier12/env-specific/vdev/hostgroup.d/ecomUs.cfg',
> starting on line 7)."
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Duncan Berriman <duncan at dcl.co.uk>
> To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 2:11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Wildcards in hostgroup definitions
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> Appears to work just fine for me if I am testing your case correctly.
>
> Perhaps you could post the config file (or snip of) that's causing the
> issue.
>
> Duncan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com [mailto:olourkin-nagios at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 20 October 2010 22:45
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Wildcards in hostgroup definitions
>
> Hi all -
>
> Got a mystery regarding the use of regex matching that I hope someone on the
> listserv might clear.  We have the appropriate config options to use regex,
> and
> it works just fine for the members directive - ie. "members    .*" expands
> just
> as we'd expect.
>
> But "hostgroup_members    .*" returns an error along the lines of "Could not
>
> find member group '.*' specified in hostgroup....", leading us to believe
> that Nagios is simply ignoring regex matching for the hostgroup_members
> directive.
> Anyone know if we're off our rockers, or if Nagios really does handle things
> this way?
>
> Thanks,
> Erik Larkin
>
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