Name

%Autojoin pattern — filter newly appearing hosts by host name and put them automatically into the specified group(s)

Synopsis

%Autojoin pattern [ pattern ] [ groupname ]

Description

This is similiar to %Autojoinbut only hosts selected by pattern matching their host name are joined.

%Autojoin pattern a.* GROUP

tells bbd to automatically put any newly appearing host with a name starting with "a" into the group 'GROUP' ("newly appearing" means that bbd is receiving status messages for a host not yet known)