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Forums: Posted by rmarshall

Topics 1–16 of 16

Topic Author Replies Latest Post
Splunk in VM on SAN
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I am considering migration my Splunk installation to an ESX4 virtual machine with the disk image running ...
rmarshall
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1
25 months ago...
Getting started with Python SDK
In: SplunkDev (Not tagged)
Thank you for the posting. I was also able to have success after running: source $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/setSplunkEnv in ...
To be more specific about what my problem is, I can't get past this error: ImportError: No module named ...
How do I get started writing some custom scripts using the Python SDK? I can't seem to figure this ...
rmarshall
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3
35 months ago...
Alert if counter increments
In: SplunkReporting (Not tagged)
One more note, I need this to work for multiple result sets. In other words, I get the data from several ...
I am trying to figure out how to make an alert that will trigger if a counter fed into splunk once each ...
rmarshall
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3
37 months ago...
Create search results in /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk using CLI search
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I am trying to get Splunk to save the search results into /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk using CLI instead ...
rmarshall
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1
38 months ago...
Documentation on splunk.dcutils
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Is this not supported?
I want to customize my Splunk sendmail.py file so that I can format my emails exactly the way I want ...
rmarshall
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2
38 months ago...
Transactions and Summary Indexing
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I am trying to use Summary Indexing to speed up my transaction searches for my reports, and I am running ...
rmarshall
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1
38 months ago...
Splunk Alerts - Format of the email
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Hmm... Two days no response. Is this a bad question to ask?
Is there a way to format the email alerts from Splunk? In other words, the email alerts are great ...
rmarshall
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2
39 months ago...
Extracted Fields only show top 10 - I want more
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
This top function provides a report that shows the top 21 items in the list. I am looking for a way ...
Is there a way to make it show more than the top ten hosts in the hosts field drop down? For example, ...
rmarshall
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3
40 months ago...
HELP!!! - My dashboard reports are wrong...
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
The issue was that in Preferences I had my Max Search Results set too low and it was tuncating the data ...
My dashboard reports are not reporting the same numbers as individual searches. The search is doing ...
rmarshall
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1
43 months ago...
transction search performance
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I use transaction searches heavily to produce report data and it runs very slow. Are there any tuning ...
rmarshall
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1
43 months ago...
Splunk missing alerts
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I have some alerts setup and Splunk is only triggering on them intermittently. Is there something I ...
rmarshall
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1
44 months ago...
Splunk not accepting updated reverse DNS
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I appreciate the responses. Hyphy, the DNS server is working just fine. As I mentioned, I can get ...
Thank you. Would you like me to open my own support incident, or can you just add me to the incident ...
I really need to resolve this. I have a number of events coming into Splunk via syslog that are indexing ...
I have updated the reverse DNS for some hosts because the host name was incorrect, but now Splunk does ...
rmarshall
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7
46 months ago...
transaction pattern match=exact
In: SplunkRequest (Not tagged)
I noticed that there is only one option for the match option (closest) for the transaction data processing ...
rmarshall
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46 months ago...
Transaction pattern - using astrisk - any other pattern options?
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Thank you. And are there any plans to enhance the transaction command in the near future?
I noticed in one of your doumentation examples for the transactiontypes.conf you specify that an astrisk ...
rmarshall
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3
46 months ago...
transaction aliases pattern - What are my options?
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
Did I say too much here and now no one want to read it? Perhaps I should just open a support ticket...
Sort of. I need the ability to manipulate my pattern matching so I can narrow down my exclusion criteria ...
It is a little confusing. Let me see if I can explain. I have a series of transactions I am trying ...
I need to know if I can do anything fancy with the transaction alias patterns. I need to match a pattern ...
rmarshall
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5
47 months ago...
Transactions not grouping if not same time
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
I see. That did the trick. The explanation of the maxpause lead me to believe that it would exclude ...
I am trying to group transactions so I can search them and I can't get them to group if they did not ...
rmarshall
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2
47 months ago...