topic Re: Dynamically Find the Category of Server in Dashboards & Visualizations

Dynamically Find the Category of Server

AKG — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:03:43 GMT

We have Server classified as DEV, QAT and Prod. we have some alerts generated based on event IDs and sent out to teams regardless of server classification.

At the movement we have to manually enter names of the servers that we want to exclude from the alert which is bit of pain as we have servers in 100s.

we were wondering if any one of you some how dynamically filter out servers based on their classification and would like to share with us.

question though is how do we know which server is dev and which is prod and so on?

Thank you

Re: Dynamically Find the Category of Server

martin_mueller — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:46:20 GMT

That sounds like a job for tagging: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Abouttagsandaliases

Re: Dynamically Find the Category of Server

lukejadamec — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:01:13 GMT

You could create an automatic lookup that outputs a classification based on the server name.

Re: Dynamically Find the Category of Server

somesoni2 — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:28:57 GMT

What about creating a lookup table with your servers to be excluded and your alert search written to exclude servers from being alerted?