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  2. IT Analytics Help
  3. Section XVI. System Administration
  4. Automating Host Group Management
  5. Categorize host operating systems by platform and version
  6. Use Regular Expressions to Override or Modify Default Host OS Categorization

Use Regular Expressions to Override or Modify Default Host OS Categorization

IT Analytics supplies a set of regular expressions (Regex) that define the processing used to process the collected Host OS data to glean the platform and version from the text strings.

  • The Host OS Categorization default settings can be modified using the utility to update these categories.

    See Host OS Categorization Default Settings.

    See Utility to Update Host OS Categorizations.

  • Data collection automatically processes the Host OS regular expressions and updates the database with the normalized values. If you want to make immediate changes and not wait for the next collection cycle, you can categorize host operating systems in demand.

    See Categorize Host Operating Systems On Demand.

  • Regex processing is case-insensitive.

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