Importing Text file with DAT extension separated by |

[hneuman]

Good Morning

First off i been using Splunk for a year but mostly importing Logs files from Firewalls and Windows Servers.
Now i been ask to import information from a VoIP platform it comes in text files with DAT extensions and are separated by |

I been trying to import the folder containing the files but i get a triangle error handling this .. i try importing this format as a CSV and other but i just cant get splunk to imported or even read it.
Here is a simple of the data inside the DAT file

0|5558013|20150103 234659|5558888|11||11001100||634|0|201|2061||PRDCWR7B00||10||1112068888||106
0|5557815|20150103 235656|5551634|1||11001000||201|14||||PRDCWR7B00|1123011634|10||||8
0|5554908|20150103 235000|5551349|7||11001100||551|2|611|0||CS2KTOHUAWEI|1123051349|10||||68
0|5556438|20150103 235249|5555224|39||11001000||551|18||||PRDCWRJF7B00|1123995224|10||||383

Am sure its my lack of experience with importing files in splunk
Can anyone point me in the right direction
Thanks

[kristian_kolb · Accepted solution]

Just use a regular [monitor] in for inputting the files in the directory (i.e. in inputs.conf)

[monitor:///my/dir/*.dat]
sourcetype=my_dat
index=my_index

In props.conf, you might need to specify TIME_FORMAT
For the field extraction, use a REPORT in props.conf, and use FIELDS and DELIMS in transforms.conf

props.conf

[my_dat]
TIME_FORMAT = %Y%m%d %H%M%S
REPORT-dat = dat_pipes

transforms.conf

[dat-pipes]
DELIMS = "|"
FIELDS = field1, field2, field3 ... field20

You should probably read the Getting Data In section of the docs, and check out the documentation on REPORT field extractions.

EDIT: typo