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Index changes after Device IP changed and hardware refreshed

splunk_newbie3
Loves-to-Learn Everything

Hi Community,

 

One of the log source (e.g. index=my_index) at my company's splunk became inter=main. After multiple investigation, i found that Infrastructure Team has refreshed the device to a new hardware due to product EOL (same brand, same product, e.g. Palo Alto 3020 to PA3220). Also, the device IP is changed.

Thus, i have modified the monitoring path at inputs.conf in Add-on and distribute to HF by deployment server.

 

Here is the example for what i modified:

 

[monitor:///siem/data/syslog/192.168.1.101/*] #original ip was 192.168.1.100 

disabled = false 

index = my_index

sourcetype = my:sourcetype

host_segment = 4

 

After such changes, i tried to verify the result on HF, the inputs.conf was successfully update to the new version. 

 

However, the logs remain to index=main when searching on Search Head after the changes i did above.

 

Anyone know if any other thing i need to modify? Or else there are other root cause that making the logs fall under wrong index apart from the ip changes?

 

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

your changes apply only to new events not to those which are already indexed.

r. Ismo

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