topic Re: Wildcards in Log Filtering in General Topics

Wildcards in Log Filtering

LeighV — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 03:11:34 GMT

Hi All,

I'm trying to figure if if I can use wild cards when constructing a filter in Monitor -> URL Filtering. I want to get all records that contain '@*.domain.com'.

My current filter is ( url contains '@staff.domain.com' ) what I want is ( url contains '@*domain.com' )

Can this be done?

thanks

Leigh

Re: Wildcards in Log Filtering

bmorris1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:40:44 GMT

Hey Leigh,

Sure you can do this in the URL log, but make sure you put the '.' in. So your query would look like this:

(url contains '*.domain.com')

hope this helps,

Ben

Re: Wildcards in Log Filtering

LeighV — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:48:26 GMT

Hey thanks Ben, but unfortunately this is not returning any data?? My query is ( url contains '*.domain.com' )

but is not returning anything, however if I do ( url contians 'staff.domain.com' ) I get the data I expect.

Not sure why this is.

Re: Wildcards in Log Filtering

bmorris1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:07:38 GMT

Hi Leigh,

I don't have a device at hand to test this at the moment unfortunately, it was my understanding that this query would work. Do you get any results when running a custom report with the query?

thanks,

Ben

Re: Wildcards in Log Filtering

LeighV — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:14:35 GMT

Ben,

No I get the same result even in a report.

Leigh

Re: Wildcards in Log Filtering

bmorris1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:33:29 GMT

Hi Leigh,

I've had a chance to have a go myself, looks this you can't do this unfortunately. My advice would be to add all the sites you want to search for to a custom URL filtering category, that way you can do a search on the category. You can use wildcards in custom categories.

Regards,

Ben

Re: Wildcards in Log Filtering

jvalentine — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:13:49 GMT

I think the best you'll be able to do is this:

(url contains '@') and (url contains .domain.com)