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Xshell: Cisco Highlight Sets — Complete Guide This guide explains how to use Xshell’s Highlight Sets to improve visibility when working with Cisco devices (IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, ASA, Junos where relevant). It includes recommended highlight rules, regex patterns, colors, quick setup steps, and tips for using them during configuration, troubleshooting, and show output analysis. Why use Highlight Sets for Cisco

Quickly spot important lines in long command outputs (show run, show tech, debug). Highlight errors, interface states, ACL hits, BGP/OSPF state changes, and security events. Reduce time to find configuration issues and operational events.

Quick setup (steps)

Open Xshell and connect to your Cisco device session. Window → Highlight Sets (or Session → Properties → Highlight). Create a new Highlight Set named e.g., “Cisco Best”. Add rules (see table below). For each rule: xshell highlight sets cisco best

Type: Regular Expression Case sensitive: Off (unless pattern needs it) Whole word: Off Color: choose readable foreground/background contrast (recommended colors below) Enable bold/underline where helpful

Save the Highlight Set and apply it to sessions or set as default for Cisco device profiles.

Recommended highlight rules (organized by priority) Use these regexes; adjust for device family if needed. High priority — alarms, errors, failures Xshell: Cisco Highlight Sets — Complete Guide This

Pattern: (?i)\b(?:error|failed|fail|critical|fatal|panic|segfault|traceback)\b

Color: Bright red, bold

Pattern: (?i)\b(?:% ?SYS-[A-Z]+|% ?LINEPROTO-.*down|% ?LINK-3-UPDOWN)\b Highlight errors, interface states, ACL hits, BGP/OSPF state

Color: Red, bold

Interface/state changes & admin state