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How do I redirect to another indexer using wildcards in my props.conf?

daniel333
Builder

All,

I have the following props.conf / transforms.conf setup. Trying to set aside PCI into it's own set of indexers. However, redirection only works with a fully qualified hostname. Wildcards don't seem to work. Is there something I am missing?

transforms.conf

REGEX=.
DEST_KEY=_TCP_ROUTING
FORMAT=pci-group

props.conf
doesn't work

[host::myvery.*]
TRANSFORMS-routing=pciRoutingbeta

doesn't work

[(?::){0}myvery*]
TRANSFORMS-routing=pciRoutingbeta

doesn't work

[(?::){0}myvery.*]
TRANSFORMS-routing=pciRoutingbeta

does work!

[host::myverylongservername]
TRANSFORMS-routing=pciRoutingbeta
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lguinn2
Legend

I'm glad that you are figuring out the wildcards/regex for props.conf.

However, it would be easier - and more efficient - if you could do this routing at input time, instead during parsing.
You can specify the tcp routing in inputs.conf as well. It would look like this:

inputs.conf (on the hosts that you want to route in a special way)

[monitor:///therightfiles]
_TCP_ROUTING = pciRoutingbeta
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sk314
Builder

did you try host::myvery*?

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TStrauch
Communicator

try sk314´s way. this is explained in props.conf documentation.

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