Re: [Devmon] Exclude pots with noalarm in ifAlias

[W.J.M. N. <Wim...@nl...>]

Hello Stefan,

> I am looking for a solution where I can exclude interfaces from alerting
> based on the alias description.
>
> exceptions.cfg:
>
> ifName : ignore : Nu.+|Vl.+|VLA
> ifAlias : noalarm : noalarm.+
>
> But this does not seem to work.
> Any idea why this setup does not work?
>

I've solved a similar problem via the script which generates (a part of) 
the xymon hosts.cfg configuration file: it generates a device-specific 
DEVMON-directive, based on the configuration of the device to be tested. In 
your case something like "except(all;ifName;na:<interface-list>)" will be 
needed.

As far as I know, the entries in the exception file can only reference the 
primary OID, that is the OID you use in the leftmost column. If that is 
true, it is not possible to do what you want using the Devmon template only.

Regards,
   Wim Nelis.