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restricting data by host

eladfe
Engager

Hi Experts,

I have 2 ESX servers which I've configured to send the syslog to a splunk version 6 instance. It then forwards the data to another splunk instance. I would like to see the data on the second splunk box, but with 2 diffrent users where each user sees only one server.(i.e user1 will see data for esx 1.1.1.1 and user2 will see data from 2.2.2.2).

I've tried configuring 2 indexes and restrict the users by index but it seem not to show anything when I log in with these users.
Is there an easy/smart way to restrict this/perform this operation?

Thanks in advanced

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can set search restrictions per role, for example to host=1.1.1.1 to force the role to only load events with that host value.

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