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Question about the PCI Application

jambajuice
Communicator

What is the "stash" sourcetype used for in the application? We're getting two huge spikes of events from that sourcetype every day at 10 pm and 7 am. They are consuming a significant amount of our license. The messages look like the following:

51  
10/28/10
7:59:00.000 AM  
10/28/2010 07:59:00, search_name="PCI 7.1 - Successful Access by Target - Summary Gen", search_now=1288278900.000, info_min_time=1288277700.000, info_max_time=1288278600.000, info_search_time=1288278935.693, dest_bestmatch=0741BOH, psrsvd_gc=2, psrsvd_v=1
host=semvsplunkprd   Options|  sourcetype=stash   Options|  source=PCI 7.1 - Successful Access by Target - Summary Gen   Options

52  
10/28/10
7:59:00.000 AM  
10/28/2010 07:59:00, search_name="PCI 7.1 - Successful Access by Target - Summary Gen", search_now=1288278900.000, info_min_time=1288277700.000, info_max_time=1288278600.000, info_search_time=1288278935.693, dest_bestmatch=0706BOH, psrsvd_gc=1, psrsvd_v=1
host=semvsplunkprd   Options|  sourcetype=stash   Options|  source=PCI 7.1 - Successful Access by Target - Summary Gen   Options

53  
10/28/10
7:59:00.000 AM  
10/28/2010 07:59:00, search_name="PCI 7.1 - Successful Access by Target - Summary Gen", search_now=1288278900.000, info_min_time=1288277700.000, info_max_time=1288278600.000, info_search_time=1288278935.693, dest_bestmatch=0661BOH, psrsvd_gc=2, psrsvd_v=1
host=semvsplunkprd   Options|  sourcetype=stash   Options|  source=PCI 7.1 - Successful Access by Target - Summary Gen   Options
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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The "stash" sourcetype is used for summary indexing. The Summary Gen in the search names is a good clue. Are the results with sourcetype="stash" showing up outside of index=summary? If properly configured, summary indexing should not count against your indexing volume.

araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Isn't everyone using the latest/greatest??? 😛

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southeringtonp
Motivator

Note that this is only true from 4.0.10 onward. Older versions did count summary indexing against your license.

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