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Blacklist sometimes not working

tdewberry
New Member

I have this in my windows DC server with Universal Forwarder v 6.1.1.
..\Splunk_TA_Windows\local\inputs.conf file:

[WinEventLog://Security]
disabled = 0
current_only=1
blacklist1=EventCode=4662
blacklist2=EventCode=566

Yet event 4662 gets indexed sometimes. Any idea? The event 4662 is generated around 1000+ per second. Is the forwarder not keeping up with this rate of events?

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kserra_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The issue here is that the blacklist requires delimiters around the regex in order for it to work. Try changing blacklist1=EventCode="4662" , for more detail please see the following post

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/148883/what-is-wrong-with-my-inputsconf-eventcode-blacklist

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