https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74573#M15240 <P>and adding to Ayn about using the scrub command in a summary indexing search and only give access to this summary index to those not allowed to see raw data</P> Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:35:19 GMT MarioM 2012-09-28T14:35:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74570#M15237 <P>Hi !<BR /> I know how to anonymize data before adding them to an index (using sed &amp; props.conf).<BR /> But how to apply this sed to the data already in an index ?</P> <P>Thanks.</P> Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:01:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74570#M15237 orenault 2012-09-28T14:01:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74571#M15238 <P>You can't. Sorry. What has been stored in the index is there, and there isn't a supported way to change it.</P> Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:20:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74571#M15238 dwaddle 2012-09-28T14:20:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74572#M15239 <P>What you COULD do is to anonymize the search results instead using the <CODE>scrub</CODE> command, but as dwaddle says there's no changing the actual stored data once it's been indexed.</P> Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:32:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74572#M15239 Ayn 2012-09-28T14:32:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74573#M15240 <P>and adding to Ayn about using the scrub command in a summary indexing search and only give access to this summary index to those not allowed to see raw data</P> Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:35:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-anonymize-data-after-indexation/m-p/74573#M15240 MarioM 2012-09-28T14:35:19Z