Getting Data In

sedcmd no longer being applied after upgrade to 4.2

ajs07635
Explorer

I have a splunk indexer running on Linux that i recently upgraded to 4.2 and a lightforwarder running on a windows 2k8 that i upgraded to the universal forwarder. After the upgrade, the sedcmd line i have in the props.conf on my indexer doesn't appear to be working any more. I was using it to strip extraneous description text from server 2k8 logs. The logs are still showing up

The line in props.conf looks like this:

[wmi]
SEDCMD-remwinstr = s/(?ism)(This event is generated|Certificate information is only provided).*//g

I believe there is another question that has been asked that i think might be relevant as its happening here as well:

Universal Forwarder: WMI Hostname Config Ignored

For completeness, here is the wmi.conf file on the universal forwarder:

[WMI:DomainControllerLogs]
server = <host1>, <host2>, <host3>, <host4>
interval = 10
disabled = 0
event_log_file = Security
current_only = 0
1 Solution

ajs07635
Explorer

It appears this was the result of a bug that has been fixed in the 4.2.1 release. Both the forwarder AND the indexer must be updated for this issue to be corrected.

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ajs07635
Explorer

It appears this was the result of a bug that has been fixed in the 4.2.1 release. Both the forwarder AND the indexer must be updated for this issue to be corrected.

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