ePO 4.6 "contains pattern" property comparison

[tdmomega]

Does anyone have any information on what ePO 4.6 looks for as a pattern when using the Criteria comparison selection "contains pattern" when creating a tag or running a report?  In older versions of ePO, you had the option of using the comparison values of "contains" or "does not contain", but 4.6 added "contains pattern".  I am assuming this is supposed to be a regex value, but I am not sure what exactly can be used.  Anyone have any idea?  I am also going to ask support and my SE, but I just wanted to see if anyone in this forum has any information too.

[andrep1]

Did you ever get an answer from support on this ? If it is regex, I haven't found the correct syntax yet.

[tdmomega]

I have not, but I do have a consultant visiting this next week, so I am going to try and get some answers then.

[smbober]

Has there been any movement on this issue?

[andrep1]

I've raised a platinum ticket on the issue and will get back to you.

[andrep1]

I got an answer... apparently it is a like statement without the wildcards. That sounds like an "=" to me....

If you do a view sql for a query, it is what it reports. The usage of this escapes me

[barena]

Hi

I did some tests
I created 10 systems epo tree whose name is prova1-10.
I then created a tag "test" that detects systems on the basis of criteria such as name using the filter contains patter and setting it to specific values​​:

value "ov" the criterion does not match any system
value "%ov%" the criterion does not match any system
value "*ov*" the criterion matches all ten systems prova1-10
value "??ov?1?" the criterion that matches a single system prova10
value "??ov?1*" the cirterion matches two systems prova1 prova10

I tried more complex patterns like this "??ov?[1,2]?" but do not work.

Who knows, McAfee provides a help on this, because there is no trace in the online help of the criterion "contains pattern".

best regard

[andrep1]

Have you tried searching for prova% ?

[barena]

Yes I tried but that pattern does not match any system

[JoeBidgood]

The two wildcards here are * and ?, which map to the SQL wilcards _ and %:

* is equivalent to %  which means "Any string composed of zero or more characters."

? is equivalent to _ which means "Any single character."

HTH -

Joe