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Valentin Bajrami
Asked: 2012-08-25 04:31:07 +0800 CST

Nagios escalation and wildcards

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I've problems configuring escalations on nagios. I'm getting a the following error:

Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in host escalation (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/escalations.cfg', starting on line 11)
   Error processing object config files!

The escalations.cfg file looks as follow:

define hostescalation{
  host_name    *
  contact_groups    admins
  first_notification  1
  last_notification  3
  notification_interval  30
  escalation_period  24x7
  escalation_options  d,u
  }

define hostescalation{
  host_name    *
  contact_groups    suppliers
  first_notification  4
  last_notification  6
  notification_interval  60
  escalation_period  24x7
  escalation_options  d,u
  }

define serviceescalation{
  host_name    script.myprojects
  service_description  HTTP
  first_notification  1
  last_notification  3
  notification_interval  30
  contact_groups    admins
  }

define serviceescalation{
  host_name    script.myprojects
  service_description  HTTP
  first_notification  4
  last_notification  6
  notification_interval  60
  contact_groups    suppliers
  }

What I want is, get all hostgroups and their members using the wildcard (*). This is not working. Can anyone provide any solution? Am I missing any definition and if so, where/how to put this definition?

Thanks!

linux

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's not clear whether you can use wildcards in this object definition. But assuming you can, make sure you have use_regexp_matching=0 per this Nagios doc: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html#use_regexp_matching

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