topic Re: Collect Command in Knowledge Management

Collect Command

ManishaAgrawal — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:32:33 GMT

Is it possible to use collect command to collect data from one index and move it to another, where destiation index is not a summary index ?

index=whatever host=whatever source=whatever whatever | collect index=foo

Where foo is pre-configured index in indexes.conf.

Re: Collect Command

alacercogitatus — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:34:48 GMT

Sure. I don't think collect really cares where it gets dumped, just be aware that there will probably be some summary data within the dumped information.

Re: Collect Command

ManishaAgrawal — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:39:54 GMT

Thanks Alacercogitatus

Could you please highlight what summary data would be indexed.

Re: Collect Command

ManishaAgrawal — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:40:08 GMT

Thanks Alacercogitatus

Could you please highlight what summary data would be indexed.

Re: Collect Command

linu1988 — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:59:41 GMT

some extra fields will be added to the orinal index. you are going to loose event structure, host will change to local splunk instance name. you can see by using a single event collect. Rather than using collect you could copy the buckets.

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/118518/is-it-possible-to-divide-an-index-to-two-indexes?page=1&focusedAnswerId=118536#118536