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Looping through a Macro using a csv lookup?

Brian_Osburn — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:47:31 GMT

I have a request from a user who wants to get some stats from the Exchange App around specific users. Namely they're looking for a count of incoming and outgoing messages.

There's a macro in the Exchange Application that would do what I need. Unfortunately, I would have to run it each time for each user they want to report on.

I was attempting to do something almost like a loop, passing the value from the csv lookup as an argument to the macro.

Is this possible?

Brian

Re: Looping through a Macro using a csv lookup?

dwaddle — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:25:42 GMT

map (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Map) seems like it should be close to what you want, but I've always had the devil of a time getting it to do anything the way I would expect.

Re: Looping through a Macro using a csv lookup?

gkanapathy — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:54:34 GMT

It would be better to describe your use case in more detail. It's almost never a good idea to try to write your own loops in Splunk, nor it is usually advisable to use the map command.