https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Issue/m-p/277006#M83545 <P>You should read the docs.</P> <P>You dont have the wineventlog set in your default search for your user or the group the use is in. Look at the permissions and associated Role Based Access Control. Here is the starting point : <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Security/Aboutusersandroles">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Security/Aboutusersandroles</A></P> <P>You will need to add either "All Non-Internal Indexes" as a search capability, or add your manually created indexes to the Indexes searched by default.</P> <P>Best practices though is to include your index in your base search.</P> Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:06:05 GMT esix_splunk 2016-09-14T12:06:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Issue/m-p/277005#M83544 <P>Hi,</P> <P>When i try to search data using command sourcetype="WinEventLog:Security" there is no result for it.<BR /> However when i run index="wineventlog" sourcetype="WinEventLog:Security" i get all my result. <BR /> What shall i do i this case ?<BR /> In my environment i have 1 indexer and 1 search head</P> <P>Thanks</P> Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:58:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Issue/m-p/277005#M83544 himapate 2016-09-14T11:58:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Issue/m-p/277006#M83545 <P>You should read the docs.</P> <P>You dont have the wineventlog set in your default search for your user or the group the use is in. Look at the permissions and associated Role Based Access Control. Here is the starting point : <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Security/Aboutusersandroles">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Security/Aboutusersandroles</A></P> <P>You will need to add either "All Non-Internal Indexes" as a search capability, or add your manually created indexes to the Indexes searched by default.</P> <P>Best practices though is to include your index in your base search.</P> Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:06:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Issue/m-p/277006#M83545 esix_splunk 2016-09-14T12:06:05Z