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Enable custom segmentation

This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk.

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.2 , 3.2.1 , 3.2.2 , 3.2.3 , 3.2.4 , 3.2.5 , 3.2.6

Enable custom segmentation

Once you have configured segmentation rules in segmenters.conf, assign these rules to a specific host, source, or sourcetype via props.conf. Create a stanza in props.conf, designating your desired host, source or sourcetype, and then add the two required keys - the [segmentation=] key and the [segmentation-all=] key. These keys must refer to the segmentation rules you have created in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/bundles/local/segmenters.conf or rules that already exist in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/bundles/default/segmenters.conf.


Configuration

[<spec>]
SEGMENTATION = $SEG_RULE
SEGMENTATION-all = $SEG_RULE2

<spec> can be:

  1. <sourcetype>, the sourcetype of an event
  2. host::<host>, where <host> is the host for an event
  3. source::<source>, where <source> is the source for an event

$SEG_RULE and $SEG_RULE2 refer to the segmentation rules you have created in segmenters.conf. They can be different or the same.

Example

Add the following to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/bundles/local/props.conf:


[syslog]
SEGMENTATION = inner
SEGMENTATION-all = inner

This example changes all syslog data to inner segmentation.

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