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  3. Section XVI. System Administration
  4. Automating Host Group Management
  5. Categorize host operating systems by platform and version
  6. Host OS Categorization Default Settings

Host OS Categorization Default Settings

Each row in this table represents a regular expression used to determine a common OS platform and version.

Table: Regular Expressions and Platforms

OS Platform Regex

Version Regex

Ignore

ID

FreeBSD

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

1

Solaris

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

2

AIX

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

3

Ubuntu

6.06LTS|8.04LTS|

10.04LTS|12.04LTS|

14.04LTS|16.04LTS|

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

4

Data ONTAP

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

5

MAC

Rhapsody Developer Release|Server 1.0|Developer Preview|Public Beta|\d+\.?\d?+

Linux|(64-bit)|(32-bit)

6

CentOS

\d+?(/?)\d+?(/?)\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

8

openSUSE|SUSE|SLES

Leap 42.1|

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)|(x86_64)

9

Windows

(\d+?|SERVER|NT|XP|Vista)

\s?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

10

Linux

 

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

11

Red Hat|RedHat|rhel

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

12

vmnix

 

-x86|x86

13

SunOS

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

14

Data Domain

 

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

15

Fedora

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

16

Debian

\d+\.?\d?+

(64-bit)|(32-bit)

17

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