[ale] Yet another regex question

[Christopher Fowler]

The bottom line is that we will modify the program to support the '^'
and '$' anchors but will have to cut a release.  Many of these units on
on dial-up so I need to come up with a regex temp. until we can get
modifications done and the releases out to the units.  Flashing over
modem can take 40+ minutes. It has to be done at night when usage is
low.
 
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:48 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:38 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:33 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > I'm not sure why you can't tell it what not to catch.  It's simply an 
> > > extra line of code.  Is it limited by memory/space?
> > 
> > Its written in C not perl.  Plus the design does not allow something
> > like that.  If we modded it for one customer we would have to tree the
> > code in CVS for that customer.  If they were using our perl agent
> > instead I would still have to use the regex because we use the Expect
> > module to do all regex matching.
> > 
> 
> The program sets on an embedded device at a remote office.  It contacts
> a main server every startup do download a list of regular expressions or
> strings it needs to search for.  If it sees anything it contacts the
> main server and reports the alarm. It is device agnostic.  It knows no
> difference between a Cisco and a Meridian PBX.  So if I hard coded it to
> ignore anything that began with a %\s then it may not reports alarms
> that some other device spits out on its console.  I believe the Cisco
> actually displays alarms and begins them with %.   
> 
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