Policy Change Shows Field Name Instead of Value?

[Legacy User]

We modified the UIM connector policy to change the value of the Label shown for the Database class.

 

We added this line in the Parse section to parse out a short name:
     <Field input='DatabaseName' pattern='.*\.(.*?)' output='shortDBname' />
and this line in Format2 to use the short name in the Label
     <Field input='DeviceDnsName,shortDBname' output='Label' format='Database:{0}:{1}' />

 

Instead of seeing Label set to the value of shortDBname, it is getting set to the literal string "shortDBname",
so the entries look like
     Database:usdbserver1.north.ourdomain.net:shortDBname

 

Any idea what's wrong?

[Michael Boehm]

Hi Brian,

 

when a variable contains it's own value, this means it is not set anywhere.

Thus, your Parse does not seem to work.

Can you give an example of the DatabaseName to see what the regular expression ".*\.(.*?)"  is supposed to extract.

 

MichaelBoehm

[Legacy User]

Thanks Michael – Now that I know why this is happening, I can fix it… but I’ll need to turn on the raw debug to see the values I’m trying to manipulate – unless these are visible somewhere else.

[Michael Boehm]

Hi Brian,

you don't have to activate debug.

You can also map DatabaseName to one of the UserAttributes in the policy to see the value.

 

MichaelBoehm