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Wildcard

The wildcard regular expression syntax only supports an asterisk ( * ) at the end of an expression. You can use wildcards with the following reports and monitors:

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Note that a wildcard will include all disks or file systems that match an expression. For example, if you specify /us* in the Exclude File Systems field when creating a File System Service Time Summary report, then this expression will force the report to ignore the /users, /usr, and /usr/local file systems. 

Java regular expressions

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor also supports the full range of Java regular expressions, as well as inverse regular expressions. For example, you can specify /u.* to include or exclude all file systems with names that begin with u. The inverse regular expression [^OK], on the other hand, will return all results that are not in an OK state.

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  • Windows Event Log Scanner
  • DNS
  • FTP
  • HTTP
  • IMAP
  • Custom
  • NIS/YP
  • NNTP
  • POP
  • SMTP
  • TCP
  • SNMP

Sample regular expressions

The following examples of Java regular expressions can be used with the Windows Event Log Scanner and POP monitors.

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[OK POP3 .* server ready]

Literal characters

The following characters have special meaning in a regular expression and must be escaped using a backslash (to indicate that the characters should be interpreted literally):

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For example, to find the the string (some_text), use the regular expression (some_text).