https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-prevent-my-transforms-conf-been-overwrited-by-webui/m-p/290131#M96092 <P>The GUI does not expose the match_type unfortunately. You could try placing your configuration in transforms under default of your application and the gui will update the stanza in local. This might allow order of configuration precedence to not squash your match_type and remove it. <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles</A></P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:45:29 GMT starcher 2020-09-29T12:45:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-prevent-my-transforms-conf-been-overwrited-by-webui/m-p/290130#M96091 <P>Hi,<BR /> I configured <STRONG>match_type = CIDR(field_name)</STRONG> in my <STRONG>transforms.conf</STRONG> file, and it worked fine.<BR /> But when I save changes in lookup configure page from splunk web, the match_type configuration got overwrited.</P> <P>I searched a lot but found nothing help, hope someone can get me some advice.<BR /> Thanks.</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:48:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-prevent-my-transforms-conf-been-overwrited-by-webui/m-p/290130#M96091 newliu6 2020-09-29T12:48:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-prevent-my-transforms-conf-been-overwrited-by-webui/m-p/290131#M96092 <P>The GUI does not expose the match_type unfortunately. You could try placing your configuration in transforms under default of your application and the gui will update the stanza in local. This might allow order of configuration precedence to not squash your match_type and remove it. <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles</A></P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:45:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-prevent-my-transforms-conf-been-overwrited-by-webui/m-p/290131#M96092 starcher 2020-09-29T12:45:29Z