Can you help me out with a simple regular expression / macro?

[bog]

Good evening,

I'm monitoring some switches with Zabbix. Discovery found out (with cisco net template snmpv2) 9k items from which I only use 4k. The rest I have manually disabled them.
Even disabled, they do not disappear, from graphs, triggers, items, because they are still discovered. Obviously

I spent a lot of time trying to filter them out by name but I cannot get it done. The interfaces which I do not want are "Interface VLAN", "stackport" and "stacksub" (once again, filter by name was my intention)
In regular expressions, return in false ^(Interface VLAN|StackSub|StackPort)*$
This is what I tried but not working. I tried the same expression in macros in Cisco template.

Thank you for your time.

[LenR]

What is the "*" for? Are those the full string or do they have something followking, like "Interface VLAN 1"? If so, then you may want ^(Interface VLAN|StackSub|StackPort).*$. But that made me wonder about the $ at the end.

I test on regex101.com :-)

[bog]

I made some progress. It looks like i got rid of stacksub and stackport, but not interface vlan. it should had work tho, isn't the same principle?
the name of the interfaces is Interface Vlan-1() ; Interface Vlan-2() and all the way to Interface Vlan-2000(). I tried various combinations (vlan, vlan-, interface vlan...) but it doesn't want to go away.

[Hamardaban]

Regex expressions are case-sensitive.

^(Interface Vlan|StackSub|StackPort).*$

[bog]

Thank you but still no result. The vlan interfaces get discovered

[Hamardaban]

Check you strings at regex101.com

[bog]

it finally worked
template, filters, (^VLAN).*$
4500 items are no longer discovered and will be deleted

You both are good, thanks a lot.

[LenR]

The filter sees what is returned in discovery, in your case "VLAN", I think you shared the item descriptions "Interface VLAN" which is from the prototype format

Interface {#IFNAME}({#IFALIAS})