[Feature Request]: Groups Regex for multiple server properties

[akalderon]

Is there an existing feature request for this?

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What is your feature request?

Been battling groups regex functionality today and it got me to think about extending the grouping functionality for multiple criteria, ideally specified by individual regex expressions.

Currently, Groups can utilize a regex to include / exclude servers using their host name.
Would like to see other dynamic (regex based) grouping criteria such as:

• Group by Server Architecture: /x64/ or
• Exclude an Architecture: /^(?!X64$).+/
• Group by Operating System: /Debian GNU/Linux 12|Debian GNU/Linux 13/ (or exclude same)
• Group by CPU: /Intel Core\™ i5-10210U/ (or exclude same)
• Group by individual IP Addresses: /10.0.0.1|10.0.0.2|10.0.0.10/ (or exclude same)
• Group by IP / Subnet Mask: 10.0.0.0/29

deally take all the regex fields where stated at the group creation / definition as a combined inclusion / exclusion logic following examples:

• Architecture
• Architecture + CPU
• Exclude OS
• Architecture + CPU + OS
• Name Regex + OS
• IP range or subnet

etc.

Would be extremely helpful for automated patching as an example where different workflows need to run against different architectures or operating systems on subset of servers

Thanks for the consideration.

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[jhuckaby]

HAHAHA! I knew it! This is actually already on my TODO list. I was planning on allowing the user to write a xyOps Expression for groups, to match any of the Server Data Object properties to trigger inclusion in a given group.

For example:

info.arch == 'arm64' && info.platform == 'linux'

I'll have to figure out how to support regular expressions inside of XYEXP (i.e. JEXL).

Anyway, this is coming soon! Thanks!

[akalderon]

Or switch altogether to JEXL with a set of drop downs and lines to construct expressions.
Reference dynamic groups expression builder UI on Microsoft Entra that does this exact thing. Definitely not urgent especially for small users like me but immensely valuable as you break into the enterprise space.
Microsoft Example