I would suggest just setting up a smartset for the regular expression (hostname 
= "ups*") and then passing that to your action nodes if the node falls into the 
smartset. No need to query the database, smartset does that already for you.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l-digest AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
[mailto:owner-nv-l-digest AT lists.us.ibm DOT com]On Behalf Of Jeff Fitzwater
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 2:25 PM
To: Netview
Subject: [nv-l] RULESET ?


NV 7.1.3 on SOL 5.8


In a RULESET using the QUERY DATABASE; Is there any way to use a REGEXP
in the LITERAL value to be compared?

I am using the NVADD_EV event for new node added, to be processed
through a RULESET and then compare varbind 2, which carries the
hostname.
I then want to compare it to see if name starts with "ups-" and then
continue processing if TRUE.


Jeff Fitzwater
OIT Systems & Networking
Princeton University