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Security Event whitelist regex filter

oneshow
Engager

I need to filter logon event (eventcode = 4624) only for user with name SA-*

New Logon:
Security ID: TEST\SA-user01
Account Name: SA-User01
Account Domain: TEST

Can i configure inputs.conf to whitelist only this kind of event?

Thanks

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oneshow
Engager

only with this string work fine:

whitelist = Message="\\[sS][aA]\-" EventCode="4624"

in logon event "User" is N/A

Thanks

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oneshow
Engager

only with this string work fine:

whitelist = Message="\\[sS][aA]\-" EventCode="4624"

in logon event "User" is N/A

Thanks

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

see the documentation (need at least splunk 6.1 )
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/Data/MonitorWindowsdata > Create advanced filters with whitelist and blacklist

try
whitelist= User=SA-* EventCode=4624

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