I want to learn more about building reboust applicability strings for our response maps.
e.g. the following command can be input in a variety of ways:
show ip interface ethernet 0/1
show ip interface eth0/1
sh ip int fa0/1
and so on....
Is there a tutorial/video or can someone build an applicability string?
I tried to use regex and did "sh.* int* (et*|fa*) \d+"
This matches "show ip int" AND "show int".
Any help is appreciated.
This is where you need to learn some regex stuff. (I realize that you are using iTest to avoid having to be a regex expert. But if you're going to be the Response Mapping guru for your group, it will help you a lot of if you learn some regex basics.
In this case, the trick is to understand that .* in a regex will match anything. But if you only want to match non-whitespace characters, you can use \S*.
So try this:
sh[ow]*\s+ip\s+int[erface]*\s+(et[hernet]*|fa[stethernet]*)\s*\d+/\d+
(I haven't tested this.)
You could just use \S* instead of [ow]* and [erface]*, etc., if you prefer.
You can continue to adjust according to your needs.
Other tricks are to limit the number of characters in a match, and/or to tell it what not to match. For example, this RE matches "show interface", but not "show interface brief".
sh\w*\s+int\w{0,7}(?!\sb\w{0,4})
It translates to: "sh" followed by 0 or more word characters, followed by at least one space, followed by "int", followed by 0-7 characters (e.g. "erface"), and NOT followed by the group of ( a space, the letter b, and 0-4 letters).
