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Creating a custom where command

joepjisc
Path Finder

Hi,

I'm new to creating custom search commands, and haven't been able to understand the examples in the SDK repo on GitHub, if someone can point me to or provide a step by step guide to achieve the below that'd be really appreciated.

Problem: I need to filter my results to only include events where a field (cidr) is a subnet of a range entered on a dashboard ($search_cidr$).

As the builtin cidrmatch(CIDR, IP) only works with an IP and a CIDR range, I don't beleive I can do this natively, so I'm thinking a custom where command is the way to go, so I can do something like this in SPL:

| from datamodel:mymodel
| where SubnetOf(cidr, "$search_cidr$")

I've written a basic Python function in my apps bin directory to do the comparison, it takes either (IP, Subnet) or (Subnet. Subnet) and returns a boolean, however I don't know how to turn this into a filter for the where command to use.

 

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from ipaddress import ip_network


def SubnetOf(Needle, Haystack):
    try:
        Needle = ip_network(Needle)
        Haystack = ip_network(Haystack)
        return Needle.subnet_of(Haystack)
    except:
        return False

 

 

Any guidance to get me started would be great.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

AFAIK, the where command is not extensible.  You can do the equivalent with a custom command, though.

| from datamodel:mymodel
| SubnetOf needle=cidr haystack="$search_cidr$" result=foo
| where foo

You'll need to convert your script into a Splunk streaming command, though.  See dev.splunk.com for more.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

AFAIK, the where command is not extensible.  You can do the equivalent with a custom command, though.

| from datamodel:mymodel
| SubnetOf needle=cidr haystack="$search_cidr$" result=foo
| where foo

You'll need to convert your script into a Splunk streaming command, though.  See dev.splunk.com for more.

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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