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How to use CIM?

rendie
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Hello,
I read about CIM, saw Splunk Fundamental 2 and read the documentation, but I don’t understand ... how to use CIM and how to work CIM? Help me understand, please.
Thank.

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starcher
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https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/CIM/4.14.0/User/Overview

http://www.georgestarcher.com/splunk-bringing-in-data-minecraft-the-model-method/

It’s a field naming and in some cases value standardization lexicon.

Extract fields to CIM compliant names -> eventtype key events -> tag eventtypes to the appropriate data models.

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