Dell PowerConnect 6248 Criteria Comparison Leading Characters in Startup Config

I have a stack of Dell Powerconnect 6248 that I have configured with NCM to do a compare of the start-up and running configuration. However it is alerting me when the configs are exactly the same because Dell is putting 1-999 plus a colin in their startup config. I've already tried added a regex to filter out the leading characters but it still will not work.

Here are the regex i've tried.

^\d+\s:\s

^\d{3}\s:\s\w

I also download new running and start configs to compare after making changes to each regex filter. And yes the filter criteria is enabled. I've gotten close as it has ignore the "!" with line numbers.

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steffen.gutzeit

Hello.

I am not familiar with Regex but there is a default comparison criteria for ignoring hex data. Maybe you could create something similar to this to exclude the pattern '1, 2 or 3 digit decimal number followed by space followed by colon' (e.g: "167 :" as the start of the line)

good luck & best regards,

Steffen

jpetkevich

sneaker12 Have you made any progress with Steffen's suggestion?

rfroembgen

I think you were pretty close. Tested it with this regex and its working: ^\s*\d{1,3}\s:\s

^ makes sure we start at the beginning of newline

\s* ignore a possible whitespace, * makes it so it can occure 0 or more times

\d{1,3} would be everything between 1-999 (or 001-999)

\s:\s should be self-explanatory

It should ignore the pattern correctly.

Best Regards

Rene

steffen.gutzeit

Thank you for figuring out the Regex pattern, Rene.