[osiris] Filters not working

Michael Menge michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Mon Nov 12 10:52:02 EST 2007


Hi,

I have one line for every expression. In your example i would have had 4 lines


Quoting Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>:

> Actually this way happening before I did that.
>
> I added it partially so I found find out where lines were supposed to
> start and end when it mushed them all into one awful looking line.
>
> Does your filters command show the whole thing as 1 long line?
>
> -h
>
> Hari Sekhon
>
>
>
> Michael Menge wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i don't mark the beginning and end of a line with ^.* and .*$
>>
>>    Michael
>>
>> Quoting Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>:
>>
>>
>>> I am trying to use filters to reduce noise but it doesn't seem to be
>>> working. I have for example filters like:
>>>
>>> ^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:VSS][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:running][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:stopped].*$
>>> ^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:VSS][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:stopped][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:running].*$
>>> ^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:swprv][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft
>>> Software Shadow Copy
>>> Provider;status:running][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft Software Shadow
>>> Copy Provider;status:stopped].*$
>>> ^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:swprv][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft
>>> Software Shadow Copy
>>> Provider;status:stopped][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft Software Shadow
>>> Copy Provider;status:running].*$
>>>
>>> To try to stop it reporting changes in service state for Volume Shadow
>>> Copy on the Windows servers running the osirisd agent.
>>>
>>> However, I still get emails like this, several days after implementing
>>> this filter:
>>>
>>> [223][SERVER_X][cmp][mod_kmods][service:VSS][service:VSS;dname:Volume   
>>> Shadow
>>>  Copy;status:stopped][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:running]
>>> [223][SERVER_X][cmp][mod_kmods][service:swprv][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft
>>>  Software Shadow Copy
>>> Provider;status:stopped][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft Software
>>> Shadow Copy Provider;status:running]
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the sole content of the email, the only change in state to the
>>> server, so the filters are obvious not working.
>>>
>>> It seems that the filters also get squashed into a single line on the
>>> filters file like so
>>>
>>> # add regular expressions, one per line (disable with '#')...<filters
>>> snipped>...^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:VSS][service:VSS;dname:Volume
>>> Shadow Copy;status:running][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:stopped].*$^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:VSS][service:VSS;dname:Volume
>>> Shadow Copy;status:stopped][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:running].*$^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:swprv][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft
>>> Software Shadow Copy
>>> Provider;status:running][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft Software Shadow
>>> Copy
>>> Provider;status:stopped].*$^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:swprv][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft
>>> Software Shadow Copy
>>> Provider;status:stopped][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft Software Shadow
>>> Copy Provider;status:running].*$...<filters snipped>...
>>>
>>> Although Osiris seems to still recognise them even though technically
>>> this makes them part of the same line and hence commented out!
>>>
>>> osiris-4.2.3-release: filters
>>> Exclude anything matching the following regular expressions:
>>>
>>> ...<filters
>>> snipped>...^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:VSS][service:VSS;dname:Volume
>>> Shadow Copy;status:running][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:stopped].*$^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:VSS][service:VSS;dname:Volume
>>> Shadow Copy;status:stopped][service:VSS;dname:Volume Shadow
>>> Copy;status:running].*$^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:swprv][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft
>>> Software Shadow Copy
>>> Provider;status:running][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft Software Shadow
>>> Copy
>>> Provider;status:stopped].*$^.*[cmp][mod_kmods][service:swprv][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft
>>> Software Shadow Copy
>>> Provider;status:stopped][service:swprv;dname:Microsoft Software Shadow
>>> Copy Provider;status:running].*$^...<filters snipped>...
>>> 8 comparison filters.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how to make this work properly?
>>>
>>> -h
>>>
>>> --
>>> Hari Sekhon
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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