Knowledge Management

Paychex Cover Your Assets - losing alert Time Range

Keith_wgtn
Explorer

Hi All,  

and @dmarling and @efavreau 

I have been using the Paychex Cover Your Assets techniques from the 2019 Splunk Conference to export user config and load into Splunk Cloud.  I have used it for a few sites but with the latest site I have a problem where Alerts defined with Time Range set to Custom have loaded into cloud with Time Range set to "All Time".

This will obviously cause a performance problem especially as many alerts run frequesntkly and usually the Time Range is set to 5 minutes.

Has anyone else noticed these settings being lost in the Paychex process?  

For example this:

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has become:

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I have checked and can see the that the first Paycheck SPL worked fineas I can find these fields in the resulting csv:

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But the second Paychex SPL that assembles the CreateCurl has dropped these fields:

 

curl -k -H "Authorization: Splunk XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/servicesNS/nobody/search/saved/searches -d name="AWS ASG ELB Activity" -d search="%28index%3Daws%20OR%20index%3Dclick%29%20sourcetype%3D%22aws%3Acloudtrail%22%20%20userAgent%3D%22autoscaling%2Eamazonaws%2Ecom%22%20accountName%3DProduction%20%20%28eventName%3D%20%20%22DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer%22%20OR%20%20eventName%3D%20%22RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer%22%29%7C%20spath%20path%3DrequestParameters%2Einstances%7B%7D%2EinstanceId%20output%3Dinstances%20%20%20%7C%20eval%20slack%5Fmessage%20%3D%20strftime%28%5Ftime%2C%20%22%20%25Y%2D%25m%2D%25d%20%25H%3A%25M%3A%25S%22%29%20%2E%20%22%20autoscaling%20%22%7Ceval%20slack%5Fmessage%20%3D%20slack%5Fmessage%20%2E%20if%28eventName%3D%22RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer%22%2C%20%22%20added%20%22%2C%20%22%20removed%20%22%29%20%7Ceval%20instance%5Ftotal%3Dmvcount%28%09%0A%27responseElements%2Einstances%7B%7D%2EinstanceId%27%29%7Ceval%20instance%5Fcount%3Dmvcount%28instances%29%20%7C%20eval%20instance%5Flist%3Dmvjoin%28instances%2C%22%3B%22%29%20%20%7C%20eval%20slack%5Fmessage%20%3D%20slack%5Fmessage%20%2E%20instance%5Fcount%20%2E%20if%28instance%5Fcount%3D1%2C%20%22%20instance%22%2C%20%22%20instances%22%29%20%2E%20if%28eventName%3D%22RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer%22%2C%20%22%20to%22%2C%20%22%20from%22%29%20%2E%20%22%20load%20balancer%20%22%20%2E%20%27requestParameters%2EloadBalancerName%27%20%2E%20%22%2C%20new%20instance%20count%20is%20%22%20%2E%20instance%5Ftotal%20%2E%20%22%20%28%22%20%2E%20instance%5Flist%20%2E%22%29%22%20%7C%20table%20%20slack%5Fmessage%20%7Csort%20%2Dslack%5Fmessage" -d description="" -d auto_summarize.cron_schedule="%2A%2F10%20%2A%20%2A%20%2A%20%2A" -d cron_schedule="%2A%2F5%20%2A%20%2A%20%2A%20%2A" -d is_scheduled="1" -d schedule_window="0" -d action.email="0" -d action.email.sendresults="" -d action.email.to="" -d action.keyindicator.invert="0" -d action.makestreams.param.verbose="0" -d action.notable.param.verbose="0" -d action.populate_lookup="0" -d action.risk.param.verbose="0" -d action.rss="0" -d action.script="0" -d action.slack="1" -d action.slack.param.channel="%23digital%2Dprod%2Daudit" -d action.slack.param.message="%24result%2Eslack%5Fmessage%24" -d action.summary_index="0" -d action.summary_index.force_realtime_schedule="0" -d actions="slack" -d alert.digest_mode="0" -d alert.expires="24h" -d alert.managedBy="" -d alert.severity="3" -d alert.suppress="0" -d alert.suppress.fields="" -d alert.suppress.group_name="" -d alert.suppress.period="" -d alert.track="0" -d alert_comparator="greater%20than" -d alert_condition="" -d alert_threshold="0" -d alert_type="number%20of%20events" -d display.events.fields="%5B%22host%22%2C%22source%22%2C%22sourcetype%22%5D" -d display.events.list.drilldown="full" -d display.events.list.wrap="1" -d display.events.maxLines="5" -d display.events.raw.drilldown="full" -d display.events.rowNumbers="0" -d display.events.table.drilldown="1" -d display.events.table.wrap="1" -d display.events.type="list" -d display.general.enablePreview="1" -d display.general.migratedFromViewState="0" -d display.general.timeRangePicker.show="1" -d display.general.type="statistics" -d display.page.search.mode="verbose" -d display.page.search.patterns.sensitivity="0%2E8" -d display.page.search.showFields="1" -d display.page.search.tab="statistics" -d display.page.search.timeline.format="compact" -d display.page.search.timeline.scale="linear" -d display.statistics.drilldown="cell" -d display.statistics.overlay="none" -d display.statistics.percentagesRow="0" -d display.statistics.rowNumbers="0" -d display.statistics.show="1" -d display.statistics.totalsRow="0" -d display.statistics.wrap="1" -d display.visualizations.chartHeight="300" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.overflowMode="ellipsisNone" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.rotation="0" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisLabelsX.majorUnit="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisLabelsY.majorUnit="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisLabelsY2.majorUnit="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisTitleX.text="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisTitleX.visibility="visible" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisTitleY.text="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisTitleY.visibility="visible" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisTitleY2.text="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisTitleY2.visibility="visible" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisX.abbreviation="none" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisX.maximumNumber="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisX.minimumNumber="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisX.scale="linear" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY.abbreviation="none" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY.maximumNumber="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY.minimumNumber="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY.scale="linear" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY2.abbreviation="none" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY2.enabled="0" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY2.maximumNumber="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY2.minimumNumber="" -d display.visualizations.charting.axisY2.scale="inherit" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart="column" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.bubbleMaximumSize="50" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.bubbleMinimumSize="10" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.bubbleSizeBy="area" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.nullValueMode="gaps" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.overlayFields="" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.rangeValues="" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.showDataLabels="none" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.sliceCollapsingThreshold="0%2E01" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.stackMode="default" -d display.visualizations.charting.chart.style="shiny" -d display.visualizations.charting.drilldown="all" -d display.visualizations.charting.fieldColors="" -d display.visualizations.charting.fieldDashStyles="" -d display.visualizations.charting.gaugeColors="" -d display.visualizations.charting.layout.splitSeries="0" -d display.visualizations.charting.layout.splitSeries.allowIndependentYRanges="0" -d display.visualizations.charting.legend.labelStyle.overflowMode="ellipsisMiddle" -d display.visualizations.charting.legend.mode="standard" -d display.visualizations.charting.legend.placement="right" -d display.visualizations.charting.lineWidth="2" -d display.visualizations.custom.drilldown="all" -d display.visualizations.custom.height="" -d display.visualizations.custom.type="" -d display.visualizations.mapHeight="400" -d display.visualizations.mapping.choroplethLayer.colorBins="5" -d display.visualizations.mapping.choroplethLayer.colorMode="auto" -d display.visualizations.mapping.choroplethLayer.maximumColor="0xaf575a" -d display.visualizations.mapping.choroplethLayer.minimumColor="0x62b3b2" -d display.visualizations.mapping.choroplethLayer.neutralPoint="0" -d display.visualizations.mapping.choroplethLayer.shapeOpacity="0%2E75" -d display.visualizations.mapping.choroplethLayer.showBorder="1" -d display.visualizations.mapping.data.maxClusters="100" -d display.visualizations.mapping.drilldown="all" -d display.visualizations.mapping.legend.placement="bottomright" -d display.visualizations.mapping.map.center="%280%2C0%29" -d display.visualizations.mapping.map.panning="1" -d display.visualizations.mapping.map.scrollZoom="0" -d display.visualizations.mapping.map.zoom="2" -d display.visualizations.mapping.markerLayer.markerMaxSize="50" -d display.visualizations.mapping.markerLayer.markerMinSize="10" -d display.visualizations.mapping.markerLayer.markerOpacity="0%2E8" -d display.visualizations.mapping.showTiles="1" -d display.visualizations.mapping.tileLayer.maxZoom="7" -d display.visualizations.mapping.tileLayer.minZoom="0" -d display.visualizations.mapping.tileLayer.tileOpacity="1" -d display.visualizations.mapping.tileLayer.url="" -d display.visualizations.mapping.type="marker" -d display.visualizations.show="1" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.afterLabel="" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.beforeLabel="" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.colorBy="value" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.colorMode="none" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.drilldown="none" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.numberPrecision="0" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.rangeColors="%5B%220x53a051%22%2C%20%220x0877a6%22%2C%20%220xf8be34%22%2C%20%220xf1813f%22%2C%20%220xdc4e41%22%5D" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.rangeValues="%5B0%2C30%2C70%2C100%5D" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.showSparkline="1" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.showTrendIndicator="1" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.trendColorInterpretation="standard" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.trendDisplayMode="absolute" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.trendInterval="" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.underLabel="" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.unit="" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.unitPosition="after" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.useColors="0" -d display.visualizations.singlevalue.useThousandSeparators="1" -d display.visualizations.singlevalueHeight="115" -d display.visualizations.trellis.enabled="0" -d display.visualizations.trellis.scales.shared="1" -d display.visualizations.trellis.size="medium" -d display.visualizations.trellis.splitBy="" -d display.visualizations.type="charting"

 

I really like this process and am keen to work out a solution but am asking in case someone else has already resolved it.

Thanks heaps.

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Keith_wgtn
Explorer

Perhaps I can answer this myself.

At https://github.com/paychex/Splunk.Conf19 the CYA_Import_Splunk_Query SPL already has dispatch.* at the end of line 18 after lookup.*

BUT it hasnt been added to the end of lines 24 and 26. 

So it seems that someone was adding it but didnt finish it.  

But I think that is all that might be required to fix it.

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Keith_wgtn
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and line 19

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