Using Glob throughout your account

Overview

Many fields throughout your account support glob expressions.  Fields that support glob expressions are usually marked with an asterisk:

You can also use glob to construct filters in LogicModules, on the Alerts Page, in Reports and more.

Notes:

• Glob is always case insensitive
• Device and group names containing parentheses ( ) or pipe characters | may break complex glob expressions. You can escape these characters using the \ character, like this: ‘Devices\(Production\)’

Glob Syntax

This table below illustrates how to format glob expressions.  You can combine these to create more complex expressions:

Examples

1. Include all servers 1 through 10 except servers 2 and 4: (server1|server3|server5|server6|server7|server8|server9|server10) OR server!(2|4)
2. Include all servers under the group Production and child groups under Production, except any servers under group Production/Servers: Production/!(Servers)
3. Include all groups except those that start with a – and group Servers: !(-*|Servers)
4. Include all devices that start with prod that do not match prod-01-LA: prod!(-01-LA*)
5. Include all devices that start with prod that do not contain ’29’: prod!(*29*)
6. Include all top level groups: !(*/*)
7. Include all groups under the group Production, but exclude subgroups for groups under the group Production: Production/!(*/*)
8. Include all servers under the group Production and child groups under production, except any servers under Production/Network/Servers: Production/!(Network/Servers)

Specifying groups with glob expressions

Device groups can be specified using glob expressions (e.g. in an alert rule) as follows: