Regex on Instance Discovery

[lmontano]

Hi everyone,
I was looking for a way to create a dci for network traffic on all interface address.
I'm using a template and instance discovery for the process. Now I know that I can use the agent list "Net.InterfaceList" to get interface index and then with Net.Interface.BytesIn64({instance}) get the data I need.
I use following Instance discovery filter script that Alex Kirhenshtein created:
if ($1 ~= "^([0-9]+) .*")
{
      return %(true, $1); // at this point $1 contains first matching group
}
return false;

I was trying to modify regex string to "^[0-9](?!.*127\.0\.0\.1)" to avoid loopback interface.
But I get error "execution error: Error 18 in line 3: Invalid regular expression"
As I couldn't find a way to do it, I use following script
if ((index($1,"127.0.0.1/8")==0)&&(index($1,"::1/128")==0)&&(index($1,"fe80:")==0))
{
    if ($1 ~= "^([0-9]+) .*")
    {
          return %(true, $1); // at this point $1 contains first matching group
    }
}
return false;

Now it works but I tested my regex string on others apps and it worked fine.
Also I was reading that with regex you can "split" the agent list string into multiple values, for example $1:iface Index, $2:IP Address, etc.
although now is working, I'm a bit confuse about regex expressions on netxms. how could I do it the same I do but with regex?
also, when you use regex to get multiple values from a string, how could you asign to multiple variables ($1,$2,etc)

[lmontano]

Any Help?

[Tursiops]

Hi,

Looks to me like negative lookahead regular expressions are not working (I tested a bit and got the same result you did).
Not sure if there's some syntax difference or if the ?! is being interpreted by something else.

You could change your

if ($1 ~= "^([0-9]+) .*")

to this

if ( ($1 ~= "^([0-9]+) .*") && ( ! ( $1 ~= "^[0-9]+ (127|::1|fe80).*" ) ) ) {

It should work and remove the need for the additional if statement you added, but in the end, it's still just a workaround for the negative lookahead not working properly.

Cheers