C-LANG Statements › FILTER Statement—Specify a Filter Using Regular Expression Logic (SNMP Jobs)

FILTER Statement—Specify a Filter Using Regular Expression Logic (SNMP Jobs)

The FILTER statement specifies a regular expression to use as a filter in an SNMP Subscribe job.

Supported Job Type

This statement is required for the SNMP Subscribe job type.

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

FILTER filter

filter

Specifies a regular expression to use as a filter. The filter is used to filter SNMP trap information.

Limits: Up to 256 characters; case-sensitive

Notes:

• Enclose values that contain delimiters (such as spaces) in double quotation marks.
• To compose a regular expression, follow the rules for Java class java.util.regex.Pattern. You can find these rules on the Internet by searching for "java pattern".

Example: Subscribe to the First SNMP Trap the Agent Receives

Suppose that you want the agent to subscribe to the first SNMP trap it receives. In this example, the name of the MIB file is RFC1213-MIB.mib. When the agent receives the first trap, the job completes.

AGENT SNMPAGENT
MIB 'C:\SNMP\MIBs\RFC1213-MIB.mib'
FILTER .*