Adding the "Ignore text field" to Device.Backup.Running Config

The nortel.aplication.switch doesn't support variations and it shows changes at every backup because it generates ephemeral session keys every time someone logs in. I would like to have the possibility to ignore the "secret" lines so I don't get changes reported at every back-up. So please add variations to nortel.application.switch type.

Thanks Magnus for posting back...  it was my pleasure to help.

So, after some emailing back and forth with Steve Welsh offlist (and issuance of a patched version of the solarwinds scripts) this is now working just fine.

It is worth it to point out that <>^ are not regex. Those modifiers work fine in the Backup Ignore Text field, as long as you are not trying to ignore block text. If you do try to ignore block text , in other words {[Ss]tart.[Oo]f.[Tt]ext}-{[Ee]nd.[Oo]f.[Tt]ext} it follows regex notation.

So i want to send a big THANK YOU to Steve and his fellow Solarwinds developers for their help.

Hi Magnus,

The ignore block can be very tricky to set-up correctly.  I would need to see the HTML diff file and (if possible) the configs being compared, or at least an extract of them which includes the lines you are trying to ignore so I can find the correct syntax for the ignore text.

I have sent you a friend request so I can gather this information from you offline (as I guess you probably don't want to post firewall configs on a public forum).

Steve

Thanks Steve, it seems to work better now, even if it is not working all

the way

For the Sonicwalls, I have variations configured like this:

^Cookie:

^auxSyslogConn0

^auxSyslogConn1

^remaining)

^ExpireTicks:

<GW

^SPI

^Responder

^Initiator

{<GW:}-{^SPI:}

{^{VPN.SA.Configuration.Section}-|}VPN.SA.Configuration.Section

It seems to honor ^ statements but not < and definitely not {}-{}

Right now I would like to match lines that begin with GW: but not lines

that just has GW within them, preferrably i would like to match

the {^{VPN.SA.Configuration.Section}-|}VPN.SA.Configuration.Section

statement and exclude the entire section.

As you can probably see from the convoluted variations statements, i have

been trying several different ways to match text, based on

www.kiwisyslog.com/.../index.html

I can provide further debugs if you would like.

The part i am trying to ignore is in regards to current vpn tunnels.

Thank you.

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On 19 November 2012 23:01, Steve Welsh <