Installation guide

Limitations and Considerations
50 Software Release Notice
Regular Expression Considerations
CA Spectrum uses regular expressions for processing. Many expressions are visible, such
as in the Locater search editor. In general, consider the data source that a regular
expression evaluates:
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Localized regular expressions are supported for user data that is stored in the
Spectrum database. However, not all CA Spectrum data is localized, which can
affect the functionality of the regular expression.
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Although Event Procedures use regular expressions to parse data from traps, CA
Spectrum supports only SNMP traps that contain ASCII data. CA Spectrum does not
support SNMP, traps, and Event Procedures that use non-ASCII data; however,
preliminary field testing found no issues with UTF-8 character encoding in traps, as,
for example, from CA eHealth SystemEDGE monitoring.
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CA Spectrum does not support localized device configuration data. Therefore, it
does not support non-ASCII regular expressions for NCM block policies.