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problem with hyphen in field values

paulw10
Explorer

I am trying to create an alert to track failed login events on windows machines

e.g.

index=fa_servers EventCode=4625 OR 533 OR 529 

but I have a problem where the account name in the event has a hyphen. Splunk is treating the hyphen as another account name  

Values

Count% 
-87100%
 
OMGHCLPP-ADS002$4652.874%
 
ALPHCLPP-ADS002$4147.126%

 

you can see the 87 count is 46+41 so its treating the hyphen as its own value. 

I have been trying to use eval and mvindex to try and just extract the 2 usernames but i am not getting anywhere. can someone explain how i can properly parse these values so it only sees 2 account names 

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paulw10
Explorer

it's ok I managed to find the problem. i Was not digging far enough into the RAW events and in actual fact the events mentioned Account_name twice with the second value showing as - so Splunk naturally recorded two account names for the events. 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Can you share the query you used to get these results and some sample events?

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