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Cisco ice parse fields problem

Dmitriy
Explorer

Hello!
We have index with cisco events and now we need to parse some fields such as device_mac and device_name. But we can't do it by regex because we get unstructured data from cisco (fields are swapped).

For example in this log first there is device type, and after mac

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And the next one comes first mac, and after device type

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Could you please help me? How i can parse this fields?

Thanks!

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Use two rex commands

| rex "device-type=(?<devicetype>[^,]+)"
| rex "device-mac=(?<devicemac>[^,]+)"

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Unless I'm missing something, the fields are labeled so parsing is trivial.  KV_MODE=auto should do it at index-time.  Or use a separate EXTRACT statement in props.conf for each field.  Or use a separate rex command for each field in SPL.

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Dmitriy
Explorer

Could you please give extract syntax to add device-type and device-mac to props.conf

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
EXTRACT-mac = device-mac=(?<deviceMac>[^,]+)
EXTRACT-type = device-type=(?<deviceType>[^,]+)
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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Use two rex commands

| rex "device-type=(?<devicetype>[^,]+)"
| rex "device-mac=(?<devicemac>[^,]+)"

Dmitriy
Explorer

Could you please explane wrehe i need to use this command?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

In your SPL search query.

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Dmitriy
Explorer

Can I use this command in source type? Or maybe another command

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Dmitriy
Explorer

Thanks!

But i have one more question

How i can save this fields to not in search rex commands?  I mean how to auto extract this to fields witout rex commad.

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