Hi,
I want to search for hosts using hostnamn regex and then delete the hosts.
This seems impossible as filters in setup and rules only allow filtering on explicit hostnames.
I can filter and find the hosts in monitoring - but how do I delete the hosts I have selected?
Am I missing something? Is there a workaround?
It is indeed sometimes difficult to tell if a certain “search field” is just for ordinary text or regexes. I already suggested a solution for this. Sometimes you can prepend the search term with a tilde ~ to indicate that it should be handled as a regex.
Fortunately, this is also the case in this search dialog in the Setup→Hosts section:
The actual regex pattern is ...[xy]\d\d\d-z and this works for me.
Thankyou Dirk - now that you mention it I remember coming across the ~ trick but my memory failed me.
I have a followon question: How do I select and delete all hosts that are currently down? There is no filter for this in setup and no way to delete in monitoring as far as I know, so what other way is there?
There is a ruleset for that called “Automatic Host Removal”
Thanks for the reply and suggestion.
Good to know that there is a rule for this, but I don’t want to automate - I want to be able to filter our the hosts I need to delete based on a variety of criteria that change from time to time - and then delete them when I have the list of hosts the way I want it in monitoring.
I guess I will have to use the API.
Sure, you will find a lot of useful examples in Help > Developer Resources > REST API documentation.
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