<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> 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 </body> </html>