Wildcard characters

You can use wildcard characters in the Image Pattern field to identify a group of similarly named Linux systems. The Image Pattern field specifies the Linux images to which the monitor rule applies. The wildcard characters let you specify one or several images per rule. Following table lists wildcard characters that are accepted by MainView for Linux — Servers.

Character

Description

*

represents an unlimited number of characters in a string

For example, J*Y could represent JAY, JABY, JABCDEFGHY

?

represents one character in a string

For example, J?Y could represent JAY, JBY, JCY.

Related topic

 Overview of using rules and images

 

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