5.1 Specifying Inclusion or Exclusion Filters

Few Exchange Online Knowledge Scripts allows you to apply inclusion or exclusion filters on the services that you want to either monitor or ignore. By default, all the services are monitored. When you apply inclusion or exclusion filter, the Knowledge Script either monitors or ignores the specified services based on your filtering criteria.

For inclusion or exclusion filters, specify the services separated by commas with no spaces.

For example: Exchange Online,Office Subscription,Office 365 Portal

Based on your filtering criteria, the specified services are either monitored or excluded from monitoring.

To either monitor or ignore a service of a specific domain, specify the domain name and the service name in the following format:

<domain name>:<service name>

For example: abc.onmicrosoft.com:Exchange Online

If you specify the above, only the Exchange Online service of the abc.onmicrosoft.com domain is monitored when you select the Inclusion criteria. But if you select the Exclusion criteria, then only the Exchange Online service of the abc.onmicrosoft.com domain is excluded from monitoring. Remaining services are monitored.

Based on your filtering criteria, the format <domain name>:* includes or excludes monitoring of all services for the specified domain. For example: abc.onmicrosoft.com:* includes or excludes monitoring of all services of the abc.onmicrosoft.com domain.

You can also specify a list of domains in the following format to be included or excluded:

abc.onmicrosoft.com:*,xyz.netiq.com:*

You can use the regular expressions while specify the inclusion or exclusion filter. For more information, see Using the Regular Expression Filters.