Getting Data In

exclude particular statement from the input

Jananee_iNautix
Path Finder

I have different log statements like

2014-01-09 02:04:09,121 [450d450d] MAJOR: FTP Inbound Agent : Directory [] File [] on Server [10.6.16.222]
2014-01-11 00:01:01,050 [608c608c] MAJOR: SFTP Inbound - Zero Byte File Check
2013-12-05 15:34:00,895 [275f275f] +MAJOR: Stacktrace of root exception
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etc
Some search is appplied on the above statements and a report is created.I want to exclude the log statement
"2014-01-11 00:01:01,050 [608c608c] MAJOR: SFTP Inbound - Zero Byte File Check"
in the log file from being searched and create a report.Is there any option in splunk to do this?

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

Try adding the following to your search portion of your search. The NOT must be all caps.

NOT "*MAJOR: SFTP Inbound - Zero Byte File Check*"

kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

Slightly rewritten for readability - does this produce the desired results?

index=fxr (SUCCESS File successfully uploaded) OR (MAJOR NOT "SFTP Inbound - Zero Byte File Check")

/K

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Jananee_iNautix
Path Finder

i gave the search like
index=fxr file AND (MAJOR) OR (SUCCESS: AND File AND successfully AND uploaded) NOT"*MAJOR: SFTP Inbound - Zero Byte File Check*" but its not getting excluded.Please help

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