Migrating from Operations Sentinel Level 8.2 or earlier to 10.0 or later
The pattern matching used to assign external applications to alerts has been modified to use regular expressions. If you are migrating from Operations Sentinel level 8.2 or earlier and used wildcard characters to associate external applications with alerts, the wildcard characters are automatically converted to regular expressions during installation. You should verify the regular expression specifications to ensure the external applications still apply to the correct alerts.
The wildcard characters * and ? that were valid in previous Operations Sentinel levels do not function the same. Now
* means any number of the previous character is allowed but all are optional. ca*t would match application ct, cat and caat.
? means 0 or 1 is allowed. So ca?t would match application ct and cat, but not caat.
Thus, to make Operations Sentinel level 10.0 associate external applications with the same alerts as level 8.2 and earlier, change * to .* and ? to . in the Alert Applications property.
Operations Sentinel supports the full range of regular expressions. See Regular Expression Meanings and Examples for more information on regular expressions or search for the term regular expression on the Microsoft website (www.microsoft.com).