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Extracting field for "Unix Add-on", netstat

broy32000
Explorer

Netstat sourcetype is displaying output like below.

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q LocalAddress ForeignAddress State
udp 0 0 :52311 *:
udp 12824 0 :631 *:
udp 0 0 172.18.127.203:123 :
udp 0 0 10.200.21.183:123 :
tcp 0 5 :1556 *: LISTEN
tcp 0 5 127.0.0.1:1557 : LISTEN
tcp 0 5 127.0.0.1:1567 : ESTABLISHED

Now I want to make “State” as a field whole value will be “LISTEN” or “ESTABLISHED” for example.

How do I do it?

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You should just be able to call | multikv (this can be set to be done automatically for your sourcetype.

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

UPDATED:

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="Proto Recv-Q Send-Q LocalAddress         ForeignAddress State
udp        0      0 :52311               :
udp    12824      0 :631                 :
udp        0      0 172.18.127.203:123   :
udp        0      0  10.200.21.183:123   :
tcp        0      5               :1556  :              LISTEN
tcp        0      5      127.0.0.1:1557  :              LISTEN
tcp        0      5      127.0.0.1:1567  :*             ESTABLISHED"
| multikv
| eval State=if(State=="LISTEN" OR State=="ESTABLISHED",Proto." ".Recv_Q." ".Send_Q." ".LocalAddress." ".ForeignAddress." ".State,State)
| table Proto Recv_Q Send_Q LocalAddress ForeignAddress State
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broy32000
Explorer

Thanks to4kawa. However, it does not fix my problem. Please note that the header of "netstat" command is: Proto Recv-Q Send-Q LocalAddress ForeignAddress State

Sub-set of values are:
udp 0 0 :52311 *:

udp 0 0 :53595 *:

-snip------------------
tcp 0 5 :1556 *: LISTEN
tcp 0 5 127.0.0.1:1557 : LISTEN
tcp 0 5 :13782 *: LISTEN
tcp 0 128 :22 *: LISTEN

I want to make "State" as a field so that I can get some details based on the values "State". One use case is to show the values of "LocalAddress" and time where "State" in "LISTEN" mode.

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broy32000
Explorer

Note that output of "netstat" will go into splunk server every 5 minutes. It's not feasible to feed the entire output into eval _raw table. I think you solution suggests that entire output of "netstat" be fed to the table.

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
your_search

As a result, isn't the event _raw ?

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