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Regular Expressions

Mithrilhall

I'm trying to filter out any message my syslog server receives with the word "printer" in it. Any suggestions?

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sedmo

This should be what you are looking for then. Select Discard Syslog Message as your action and any messages matching your search criteria will be dropped upon arrival.

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sedmo

You can do this by setting up a rule with the Syslog Viewer app. Select Add New Rule, then on the message tab enter *printer* in the Syslog Message Pattern box. Then go to the Alert Actions tab and select an action to take for messages that match the rule.

Mithrilhall

This is supposed to filter out messages with 'Printer' in them?

sedmo

This will allow you to discard any messages coming into the syslog server that contain the word printer. Is that what you mean by 'filter'?

Mithrilhall

Correct.

sedmo

This should be what you are looking for then. Select Discard Syslog Message as your action and any messages matching your search criteria will be dropped upon arrival.

Mithrilhall

Perhaps I'm not looking at this from the right direction.

I want to display every message in my syslog window except messages with the work "print" in them.