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Filter out Windows Events from the Index Stream

wweiland
Contributor

Hi,

As of Splunk 6, my props/transforms to do the above action no longer work. I haven't upgraded the UF on all my clients so the blacklist can't be used yet. Am I missing something? I believe these use to work in 5.0.5.

props.conf

[source::WinEventLog:Security]
TRANSFORMS-security1 = setnull2

[source::WinEventLog:System]
TRANSFORMS-system1 = setnull3

transforms.conf

[setnull2]
REGEX = (?m)^EventCode=(4688|5152|5156|5157)
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT = nullQueue

[setnull3]
REGEX = (?m)^EventCode=(28)
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT = nullQueue

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

Lucky for you Splunk 6 changed the game for filtering windows event logs. It is all done in inputs.conf, so there is no need to pass information through props or transforms.

Check out this post:

http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/10/14/windows-event-logs-in-splunk-6/

wweiland
Contributor

Yeah, I read that too. Unfortunately, not all of my UF have been upgraded to 6.0.1 so I can't do the blacklist just yet. I read somewhere that this may be a bug in 6.x. Thank you for taking the time to post and link.

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