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What is the purpose of macros.conf, and what is the path for it?

pavanae
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‎09-12-2016 05:41 PM

What is macros.conf and what is its use? What could be the path for macros.conf?

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sundareshr
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‎09-12-2016 05:44 PM

Search macros are reusable chunks of Search Processing Language (SPL) that you can insert into other searches. Macros you define, are stored in macros.conf

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Knowledge/Definesearchmacros

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Admin/Listofconfigurationfiles

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sundareshr
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‎09-12-2016 05:44 PM

Search macros are reusable chunks of Search Processing Language (SPL) that you can insert into other searches. Macros you define, are stored in macros.conf

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Knowledge/Definesearchmacros

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Admin/Listofconfigurationfiles

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