Interesting! I (apparently mistakenly) understood previous versions of NCM required one to use a caret as an "ignore" command, and then must be followed by the characters that should be ignored. That previously worked; I was unaware that the caret means "begins" instead of "ignore lines for comparison if they contain the following characters"
Yes, I change this annually, but I like your idea to prevent that extra bit of work.
I also did not know an entire line containing one matching "phrase" would be ignored; I like that.
I removed the caret and things are much improved. Thank you for this.
Here's a screen shot of some legacy configurations for Comparison Criteria on our NCM pre-7.3 system:
Does it make sense that all the carets be removed from these? Currently I AM getting certificate info that I'm not interested in seeing in the daily reports.