Regular Expression on jobs probe

[Miller Echagarreta]

Hi Everyone.

I need monitoring a status job in AS400, this status apply for any active job.
It must be applied to specific jobs and systems.

This is the requirement:

Status= TIMW
Jobs= DEB_MONETA, AUENV_PREP, REF_CREDIT, QP0ZSPWP, DEB_NOMONE
Subsystem= QBATCH, XASNOVED

The configuration is...

regexp_active_status = TIMW
regexp_job_name = ^(DEB_MONETA|DEB_NOMONE|MONE_PARAL|QP0ZSPWP|AUENV_PREP|REF_CREDIT|QP0ZSPWP)
regexp_subsystem_description = ^(QBATCH*|XASNOVED*)


I don't know what i am doing wrong on the regular expression because this not work...

Any recommendation?

[Garin Walsh]

Patterns are one of the things where UIM really falls down.

You have to start with what pattern engine is actually being used - is it regex, Lua, Windows wildcard, etc. because there's lots of overlap in symbols and difference in meaning.

If this is truly regex then your likely issue is in the usage of "*"

So looking at your subsystem specifier "QBATCH*" actually means a Q followed by a B followed by a A followed by a T followed by a C followed by zero or more H

Also usually in UIM you need to indicate regex with leading and trailing / characters.

Also the ( and ) indicate a capture group and are unnecessary here.

I would guess that you really want something like 

/^QBATCH.*|^XASNOVED.*/