NCM Policy Reporter

Question

I am trying to utilize the NCM Policy Reporter to check all our inventory for correct SNMP, AAA, netflow, syslog etc configs. However I am terrible at writing regex patterns. I am trying to use some of the exisiting reports and just modify them a bit. Is it possible to use one Rule to check for multiple lines (ie AAA config) or will I need one rule per config line I want to check?

njoylif · Accepted Answer

the NCM docs has section called "regular expression pattern matching" that goes into details and one of the examples is:

service  tcp-keepalives-in.*
(.*
)*.*service tcp-keepalives-outFinds the first line service tcp-keepalives-in and then  looks for service tcp-keepalives-out on any line  after that. The regular expression string .*
(.*
)*.* is used to search any  number of lines between strings.
probably google more "intense" examples too.