Evaluation Process Plugin

Evaluation Process Plugin installs the eval process command which evaluates mathematical, boolean and string expressions during a Logpoint search and adds the evaluation result in an identifier as a new field.

Release Details

Version: 5.2.0

Release date: Jan 10, 2025

Supported On: Logpoint v7.5.0 and later

Documentation: Evaluation Process Plugin guide

SHA 256: b8bd6e70a05237b81786814edd2beb67366e5a1ef1fe837f1ba76bc49b7e94e6

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Enhancement

Description

Issue ID

Reference ID

Eval now displays syntax errors detected in queries while using Logpoint search. Go to Evaluation Process Plugin to see how.

SR-179

Updated the operator’s order used to evaluate the expressions:

Arithmetic (x and ÷)
Arithmetic (+ and-)
Comparator
Logical

SR-129

Added case keyword in the syntax of If, If-else and If-elseif-else statements to simplify these statements. Go to Conditional and Comparison functions to learn more.

SR-83

Past Releases

Evaluation Process Plugin v5.1.0

Release Version: 5.1.0

Release Date: March 22, 2024

Supported On: Logpoint v6.7.0 and later

Download: eval_5.1.0.pak

SHA256: 8c35f77a9604c161bdf8a2786d2692ba1749180137fa3029ab371187c3f8171b

Enhancement

Description

Issue ID

Reference ID

Added the following functions:

has_any to check the presence of a string or its substring in any list. Go to has_any to learn more.
toint takes an argument of a string, long or double type and converts its value to an integer. Go to toint to learn more.
toreal takes an argument of string or long type and converts its value to double. Go to toreal to learn more.
issubstr to check if a string is a substring of another string. Go to issubstr to learn more.
mimedecode to decode the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) encoded values. Go to mimedecode to learn more.
uuid to generate a random Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) for a log. Go to uuid to learn more.

KB-17601, KB-19210, KB-17584, KB-21142, KB-21554

74979, 75122

Bug Fixes

The following issues are fixed:

Description	Issue ID	Reference ID
Multiple process eval commands with the same identifier executed in sequence returned a result of the first process eval only. For example, the \| process eval = ("x = 'old_value'") \| process eval = ("x = 'new_value'") query returned x = old_value.	KB-20801	74102
The strftime and strptime functions did not correctly return the preferred time and date format.	KB-17465	57441, 46987, 45764

Evaluation Process Plugin v5.0.0

Release Version: 5.0.0

Release Date: September 30, 2022

Supported On: Logpoint v6.7.0 and later

Download: eval_5.0.0.pak

SHA256: aaf3954d5451bb6cb7c363cf42583ed97e7f39a7ddae03871fa29040ed6c4dc8

Enhancements

Description

Issue ID

Reference ID

The strftime and strptime functions now support timezone parameters to evaluate date and time values based on timezone, including Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). To learn more, go to strptim and strftime.

KB-17786

New support for:

The time duration of more than 86400 seconds (24 hours). For instance, 4 days 05:06:40.000
(hh:mm:ss.SSSS).
Conversion of hex values starting with 0x to decimal.
Long data types.

KB-17486, KB-17663, KB-17468

42133, 66636

Bug Fixes

The following issues are fixed:

Description	Issue ID	Reference ID
The maximum value of conversion for the hex value was limited to 7fffffff.	KB-17786	-
Returned a null value when arithmetic operators were used on a valued numerical field.	KB-17467	52424
The tostring operation applied on a date and time returned an equivalent integer instead of a string value.	KB-17464	59106

Evaluation Process Plugin v3.0.0

Release Version: 3.0.0

Release Date: January 21, 2019

Supported On: Logpoint v6.4.0 and later

Download: EvaluationProcessPlugin_3.0.0.zip

SHA256: e004bb49a39119cfcdaf34ebaebb4393e1475ed5777f3cfc25a4e2aad6bdb5e7

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Evaluation Process Plugin

Enhancement

Past Releases

Evaluation Process Plugin v5.1.0

Enhancement

Bug Fixes

Evaluation Process Plugin v5.0.0

Enhancements

Bug Fixes

Evaluation Process Plugin v3.0.0

Support

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