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How to find a seach file

mwcentracomm
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I have inherited a Splunk system and this is one of the alerts

| metadata index=index-cc* type=hosts | eval age = now()-lastTime | where age > 86400 | sort age d | convert ctime(lastTime) | fields lastTime,host,source,age | rename age as "Seconds Since Last Event" | search `Exempted_Dark_Devices`

 

How do I find the file Exempted_Dark_Devices?

 

Thank you

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renjith_nair
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From the syntax `Exempted_Dark_Devices`, it's a macro.

Look in the macro definitions and you should be able to find the expansion of this macro

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.0/Knowledge/Definesearchmacros

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