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Route Syslogs coming from certain hosts into a separate index

yahsiel2004
New Member

I've been attempting to route Syslog messages, coming from certain hosts, to a separate index with no success. Below is an example of my config:

Splunk\etc\system\local\

Props.conf
[syslog]
TRANSFORMS-index = test

Transforms.conf
[test]
REGEX = *
FORMAT = myindex
DEST_KEY = _MetaData:Index

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grijhwani
Motivator

"*" is not a valid regex. You need ".*".

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grijhwani
Motivator

"*" is not a valid regex. You need ".*".

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yahsiel2004
New Member

Thanks that definitely made a difference 🙂

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adrianathome
Communicator

In inputs.conf

[udp://10.1.1.5:514]

Index=myindex

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yahsiel2004
New Member

That also didn't work

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yahsiel2004
New Member

Corrections to the Transforms.conf

[test]
REGEX = host=192.168.0.1
FORMAT = myindex
DEST_KEY = _MetaData:Index

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