I have a filter built from: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.2/Forwarding/Routeandfilterdatad and https://www.splunk.com/blog/2012/09/21/the-splunk-app-for-active-directory-and-how-i-tamed-the-secur...
transforms.conf
[dumpFirewallEvents]
REGEX=(?m)EventCode=(5156|5157)
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT=nullQueue
props.conf
[source::wineventlog:security] TRANSFORMS-firewall = dumpFirewallEvents
I'm stilling seeing the events 5156 in splunk and it's flooding the index quota
Hi ntripp_element,
at a first sight, I see an error in your regex: = is a special char that you must escape with backslash "\"
REGEX=(?m)EventCode\=5156|5157
Anyway I usually prefer to use two transforms:
in props.conf
[WinEventLog:Security]
TRANSFORMS-set= setparsing,setnull
in transforms.conf
[setnull]
REGEX = (?m)EventCode\=(5156|5157)
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT = nullQueue
[setparsing]
REGEX = .
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT = indexQueue
Bye.
Giuseppe
Hi ntripp_element,
at a first sight, I see an error in your regex: = is a special char that you must escape with backslash "\"
REGEX=(?m)EventCode\=5156|5157
Anyway I usually prefer to use two transforms:
in props.conf
[WinEventLog:Security]
TRANSFORMS-set= setparsing,setnull
in transforms.conf
[setnull]
REGEX = (?m)EventCode\=(5156|5157)
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT = nullQueue
[setparsing]
REGEX = .
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT = indexQueue
Bye.
Giuseppe
If you're using Splunk 6 or above at your forwarder level, you can/should do filter of Windows Event logs at forwarder level using blacklist attribute in the monitoring stanza. See this
I tried that too as below:
[default]
host =
[script://$SPLUNK_HOME\bin\scripts\splunk-wmi.path]
disabled = 0
[WinEventLog://Security]
disabled = 0
start_from = oldest
blacklist = 5156-5157
Also not working
So you're adding above inputs.conf entry in the Windows server where you're collecting Windows Event logs from? Did you restart Splunk service after making the change?
I'm using the universal forwarder to the splunk indexer. I placed those settings into inputs.conf on the indexer and restarted the service.