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MAC Address not extracting correctly

hartfoml
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The MAC address as well as several other extractions are not working correctly

Here is an example of my logs. is this so different from what you wrote the app to?

Sep 11 11:01:36 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: Sent DHCPACK to Client MAC= 001b786eb865 ciaddr= x.x.x.x yiaddr= x.x.x.x client ID= 01001b786eb865
Sep 11 11:01:36 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: Received DHCPREQUEST from Client MAC= 001b786eb865 ciaddr= x.x.x.x requestedIP= client ID= 01001b786eb865
Sep 11 11:01:36 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: DHCP_RenewLease: Host= IP=x.x.x.236 MAC=001b786eb865 Domain=My.Domain.me ClientID=01001b786eb865
Sep 11 11:01:36 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: Sent DHCPACK to Client MAC= 001b786eb865 ciaddr= x.x.x.236 yiaddr= x.x.x.236 client ID= 01001b786eb865
Sep 11 11:01:36 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: Received DHCPREQUEST from Client MAC= 001b786eb865 ciaddr= x.x.x.236 requestedIP= client ID= 01001b786eb865
Sep 11 11:01:36 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: DHCP_RenewLease: Host= IP=x.x.x.236 MAC=001b786eb865 Domain=My.Domain.me ClientID=01001b786eb865
Sep 11 11:01:36 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: Sent DHCPACK to Client MAC= 001b786eb865 ciaddr= x.x.x.236 yiaddr= x.x.x.236 client ID= 01001b786eb865
x
Sep 11 11:01:37 ns1 /opt/qip/usr/bin/dhcpd[25911]: Received DHCPINFORM from Client MAC= 000f4402ca93 ciaddr= x.x.x.28 requestedIP= client ID= giaddr= x.x.x.5

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mloven_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

hartfoml,

Splunk should automatically extract your mac address. Can you post your props.conf for this sourcetype?

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