directory.exclude_rules
Sets the rules for excluding content from a directory collection.
Key: directory.exclude_rules
Type: List<String>
Can be set in: collection.cfg
Description
This parameter specifies additional exclusion rules to eliminate unwanted directory entries.
Rules should be provided with space separation, and two forms or rule are supported
Name exclude rules
Eliminate any directory entries where the distinguished name of the entry matches the regular expression pattern given by the rule. Name exclude rules may contain any text (excluding white space and colons)
Attribute exclude rules
Eliminates any directory entries where the specified attribute contains text matching the given regular
expression pattern. attribute exclude rules are expected to be in the form attribute:attribute_name:pattern
.The
name exclude rule Temp would exclude all directory entries in the Temp organisational unit (i.e.
entries with a distinguished name line UID=bob,OU=Temp,DC=example,dc=com
).
The attribute exclude rule attribute:office:aust?
would exclude all entries with an 'office' attribute
set to aus or aust.
Note: Within regular expression patterns, spaces can be expressed as \s
if the patterns are required
to match spaces.
Default Value
(none)
Examples
directory.exclude_rules=Temp attribute:office:aust.*