3168321 - "Dangling meta character '*' near index 0" in the Diagnostics Agent logs when activating Agents on-the-fly - SAP Solution Manager

• When trying to activate agents on the fly, the logical hosts are not found
• On the SMDSystem.log the following error can be found:
  

  • [EXCEPTION]
    
    java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '*' near index 0
    
    *<expression>
    
    ^
    
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1969)
    
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:2137)
    
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:2010)
    
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1702)
    
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1352)
    
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1054)
    
     at com.sap.smd.server.util.HostNameResolver.splitRegExp(HostNameResolver.java:153)
    
     at com.sap.smd.nodes.controller.NodesControllerService.getLogicalHostsToManage(NodesControllerService.java:334)
    
     at com.sap.smd.nodes.controller.job.NodesControllerJob.run(NodesControllerJob.java:40)
    
     at com.sap.smd.server.exec.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:47)
    
     at com.sap.smd.server.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run(PooledExecutor.java:785)
    
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:836)

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KBA , SV-SMG-DIA-SRV-AGT , Agent Framework , SV-SMG-DIA , Diagnostics , Problem