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Filter syntax options in serverclass.conf

Peter
Path Finder

Is it possible to use regular expressions for the whitelist/blacklist filters in serverclass.conf? For example:

whitelist.0=mail[0-9]+.*

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It is not possible currently (version 4.0). Only * as a wildcard for any character can be used.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It is not possible currently (version 4.0). Only * as a wildcard for any character can be used.

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Jason
Motivator

If regex in these whitelists are anything like the regexp in stanza names, there was a bug in the docs. . means dot, * means anything but slash (meaning filenames only) and ... (three dots) means anything, your usual regex .*

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Peter
Path Finder

I see that PCRE expressions have been added as of 4.1, but the mappings confuse me. My current serverclass.conf has name8., which mean to match name8.blah and name8.bleh. It would be easier for me to match name[0-9]+.., but the docs seem to indicate that '.' is converted to '.' and '' is converted to '.' Can you add clarity to this?

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