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Alert for DHCP Broadcasts without acknowledgement

waJesu
Path Finder

I need help coming up with an alert for DHCP broadcasts with no acknowledgement.  The DHCP is injesting logs into Splunk.

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @waJesu .. please provide us some more details.. do you use any splunkbase apps/addons, etc

or how do you configured DHCP to splunk integration.. are you referring to Splunk indexer to UF indexer acknowledgement feature or its related to DHCP?..

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waJesu
Path Finder

You know how a DHCP returns a DHCPACK after the other 3 steps (DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPOFFER, and DHCPREQUEST). From the logs, I want to identify events where a DHCP broadcast has no DHCPACK. I hope I have clarified my need. So far I have used: index=* host=<dhcp servername> "no free leases". I believe there is a better query and maybe narrow results by hostname.

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