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Target data from specific Active Directory OU's

Mobyd
New Member

Hi,

     I am trying to gather data from a specific organisation unit in Active Directory and ignore everything else? I have tried with a transforms.conf to allow it but didn't seem to work.  I could sort of get it to work by writing a block for everything else but its a bit of a pain as the environment is shared.

Any one had any experience  doing this sort of thing?

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
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Hi @Mobyd 

Please could you confirm - is this using an admon:// input?

If so you should be able to specify a "startingNode" which would the OU which you would like to monitor.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/Inputsconf#:~:text=startingNode%20%3D%20%3...

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Mobyd
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Yes, that is correct. We are using admon in the default. I'll give that a go. Also, if I wanted to also limit it by that and then the destination IP, would I use a transforms.conf for that? Many Thanks

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