Regex’s are used to find strings or text of interest. Zenoss uses them in:

1. Processes - determining if a process name matches what you define
2. - where else is it used?

Zenoss regex is defined by a combination of rules:

1. Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
2. python regex extensions (a superset of PCRE)

^.*\/*httpd - finds all apache processes (usually named httpd) FIXME - make sure this is correct, what does stuff at begining do?