Alerting

How do we turn off alert email from source type=ps

Alan_Bradley
Path Finder

We get an alert from sourcetype=ps as a result of running this save search: (authentication failure) OR (Account * too many attempts) OR (Failed password) startminutesago=5

We turned off the *nix app ps savedsearch but we still get the email. Here is the collapsed version of the alert:

9/2/09 2:01:55.000 PM ... 126 lines omitted ... nagios 7033 5 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 1216 54904 ? S 00:03 bash /usr/local/nagios/check_su_failures nagios 7038 3 75.3 00:00:02 0.0 400 49936 ? R 00:03 cat /var/log/messages nagios 7039 7 59.0 00:00:01 0.0 624 51096 ? R 00:03 grep authentication_failure nagios 7040 1 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 588 51096 ? S 00:03 grep root nagios 7041 5 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 572 51092 ? S 00:03 grep logapp-b

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Try modifying your saved search to add a NOT statement for that sourcetype

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Try modifying your saved search to add a NOT statement for that sourcetype

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