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Forums: Posted by nmatatal

Topics 1–19 of 19

Topic Author Replies Latest Post
Set user default view
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
http://answers.splunk.com/questions/624/how-do-i-set-the-default-page-not-just-app What version are ...
katalinali
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2
20 months ago...
Splunk FQDN Hostname with Syslog
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I had the same issue. There's 3 possible solutions: 1. Setting the sourcetype to something ...
sterpstra
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2
23 months ago...
CSV Header/Field Extraction Not Working
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Thanks. That's unfortunate but not too bad in my case as we only have one sourcetype that will be using ...
http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.1/Admin/Extractfieldsfromfileheadersatindextime The following ...
nmatatal
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3
23 months ago...
File Integrity gid=-1, uid=-1 on Windows
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I'm using 4.0.9. Does anyone know how to fix this? File integrity monitoring isn't very useful if ...
nmatatal
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1
23 months ago...
_whitelist being ignored, indexing extra files
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Yeah our regexes are pretty much the same, mine is just more verbose. Turns out the problem was a stupid ...
inputs.conf: [monitor:///var/log] _whitelist=/var/log/auth$|/var/log/cron$|/var/log/kern$|/var/log/lpr$|/var/l og/maillog$|/var/log/user$|/var/log/local$ Somehow ...
nmatatal
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2
24 months ago...
Distributed Search Peering not working on remote splunk restart
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
"Not a splunk server" seems to be the generic error message. I'm having issues with the dist search ...
atkinsonj
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1
24 months ago...
Splunk is complaining about a missing index...that is there
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
02-16-2010 18:49:17.060 ERROR indexProcessor - Could not find an index with name = "_audit" this event ...
nmatatal
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2
24 months ago...
Custom Internal/Private Indexes
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Well with the default installation of Splunk 4.0.9, the following indexes are available: # All non-internal ...
I guess this is somewhat of a feature request but maybe there's a workaround... We created an index ...
nmatatal
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4
24 months ago...
Best practice for fschange
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
Looks like that issue is still open...
belias21
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2
25 months ago...
windows fschange fail?
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Thank you, the poll interval was the issue. Also, the forward slashes worked fine :) Awesome-0 ...
Simple question, why isn't my fschange data showing up? It's a windows 2k3 box, splunk 4.0.9 [fschange:C:/WINDOWS/system32] index ...
nmatatal
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2
25 months ago...
4.x Forwarders Compatible with 3.4.5 Server?
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
We will be upgrading our server this weekend and I had a little free time and was hoping to get a head ...
nmatatal
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3
28 months ago...
alert when a host stops logging
In: SplunkSearchAndAlert (Not tagged)
metadata type=hosts | eval age = strftime("%s","now") - lastTime | search age > 10 | sort age d | convert ...
jhodges
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4
31 months ago...
Old Versions Moved?
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I used to see a link to older versions on the download page. We're still a couple versions behind, ...
nmatatal
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2
33 months ago...
Other Metadata Types?
In: SplunkSearchAndAlert (Not tagged)
Just curious.... From http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/3.4.9/User/GenerateData?#metadata It ...
nmatatal
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1
33 months ago...
Creating fields via Splunk Web Question
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
I tried that, but then I get a message at the top "No rules could be learned. Try providing different ...
regarding http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/3.4/Admin/CreateFieldsViaSplunkWeb, I am a little ...
nmatatal
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3
34 months ago...
Admin>Applications Missing
In: SplunkApplications (Not tagged)
Sorry but I'm a little confused by your last post. You said "admin users can edit other searches" yet ...
I do have full admin rights and we have an enterprise license. But like you say, it's a moot point. ...
3.4.5 Am I looking in the right place?
I wanted to try out a few of the SplunkBase apps but I don't have ssh access to the Splunk server. ...
nmatatal
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7
34 months ago...
List of hosts which have not sent a message
In: SplunkSearchAndAlert (Not tagged)
I am using that exact search and have it setup to send alerts once a day. What do you have in the "Alert ...
l33t
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3
34 months ago...
Missing Hosts?
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
I get a different number of hosts when running two queries that should have the same output * | stats ...
nmatatal
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36 months ago...
Health Checks on Every Host
In: SplunkSearchAndAlert (Not tagged)
Unfortunately, that didn't work. I removed the " -7200" expression which should have returned my list ...
Hello All, I'm still very new to using Splunk, so bear with me :) I want to create an alert that ...
nmatatal
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2
36 months ago...