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Posted: **Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:05 am**

Hello everybody,

Here's my problem,

I've number of hosts named "es<some string>.<mydomain>"

I'm trying to create a hostgroup using wildcards, like this:

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define hostgroup {
	hostgroup_name	es-hosts
	members es*
}

This doesn't work, and I receive the following error:

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Error: Could not find any host matching 'es*' 
Error: Could not expand members specified in hostgroup

Strangely, when having activated option "use_regexp_matching=1" in config file, I'm able to define the hostgroup without any error using the following code:

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define hostgroup {
	hostgroup_name	es-hosts
	members ^es.*
}

I'm able to check that the hostgroup is correctly populated with the web interface.
(but I would prefer not use regexps)

Anybody having clue on what's happening ?

(tested with nagios versions 3.3.1 and 3.2.2)

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