Using wildcards for ESX names in an Event-Based Task

Deep Security 10.2 , Deep Security 10.1 , Deep Security 10.0 , Deep Security 10.3

Last updated: 2025/05/08

Solution ID: KA-0003843

Category: Configure

Use wildcards in ESX names if you want to apply an Event-Based Task to all VMs on a particular ESXi.

Regular expression is case sensitive.

Use Java regular expression syntax to match patterns in the following fields:

Below are some samples of Java regular expression:

To match:	Use this:
Any string (but not nothing)	.+
Empty string (no text)	^$
Folder Alpha	Folder\ Alpha
FIN-1234	FIN-\d+ or FIN-.*
RD-ABCD	RD-\w+ or RD-.*
AB or ABC or ABCCCCCCCCCC	ABC*
Microsoft Windows 2003 or Windows XP	.Windows.
Red Hat 6 or Some_Linux123 or abcFreeBSD	.Red.\|.Linux.\|.FreeBSD.

To use wildcards for an Event-Based Task (e.g. activating all VMs created on a particular ESXi):

Open the Deep Security Manager (DSM) console.
Go to Administration > Event-Based Tasks.
Select the event to base the task on and then click Next.
Select the actions to be performed and then click Next.
When specifying the conditions for the action, select ESX Name and then input a value in this format:
VLab.*

In this example, the Event-Based Task will be applied to vLab01, VLab02, and so on.

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