Security

Does btool logs its usage somewhere?

jordanking1992
Path Finder

All,

Looking at some windows logs and came across the following commands ran on two separate computers. The "--no-log" concerns me and I can't seem to find if there is a place where logs would generate when this command is ran.

Has anyone seen or know why I would be seeing this? I am the only admin for these hosts so at first glance this looks like a bad actor.alt text

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clozach
Path Finder

Hi did you ever determine what the root of this was? I'm seeing the same thing in my environment and would like to understand what's going on.

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Can you try running btool with —no-log option and check if that’s displaying some output?

 

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splunker12er
Motivator

Can you post the full windows logs ? so to figure out why do you see these ?

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PowerPacked
Builder

Hi @jordanking1992

Please check the usage of the btool command.

splunkhome/bin/splunk btool "conf file prefix" list --debug --app="appname"| grep "if you want to grep something from conf file"

and also use "> /var/tmp/123.txt" to write results into text file

here is the link to splunk doc

& splunk does writes logs about btool in splunkhome/var/log/splunk/bttol.log

Thanks

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jordanking1992
Path Finder

Thanks for the information but the question is "What am I seeing in those screenshots?". I cannot find the --no-log anywhere in the documentation.

-Jordan

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