regex like * doesn't work in hostgroup > hostgroup_members

[36roentgen]

It does work in hostgroup > members.

The documentation leads me to believe this should work:

Regular expressions can be used in any of the fields used in the examples below (host names, hostgroup names, service names, and servicegroup names).

This behavior is the same regardless of the setting of use_regexp_matching

This is tested on Core 4.2.4

[box293]

Can you provide a hostgroup definition example please.

[36roentgen]

define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name                          hostgroup_test
        alias                                   hostgroup_test_alias
        members                                 *
        hostgroup_members                       *
        }

Or any type of regex in hostgroup_members

[hales8181]

+1 on this. I'd like the config below to create the hostgroup 'hostgroup_test', and populate it with all of the hostgroups that end with abctesting.

define hostgroup {
hostgroup_name hostgroup_test
alias hostgroup_test_alias
hostgroup_members *abctesting
}

[box293]

I had a good test of this and I can confirm that it just throws the following error:

Error: Could not find member group '*' specified in hostgroup 'hostgroup_test' (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg', starting on line 11)

I tried a couple of different variations and all I could do was confirm that it doesn't work as expected.

[jfrickson]

Fixed via commit d1f789e into branch nv5dev, which is the Core 5 development branch, and may become unstable at a moment's notice.

Both * and regexes (if enabled) will now work in hostrgroup_members.

[hales8181]

Thanks - what version of XI will this be fixed in?

[hedenface]

Core 5 isn't officially scheduled for a specific release date. This likely won't be in XI until the version of Core that it's released in is considered stable.