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source IP field

allenhau
Engager

Hello,

I am new to splunk and have not started the evaluation yet but wanted to ask this question that may be obvious.

Let's say Firewall-1 sends logs to splunk with the source IP defined as "src IP"
Firewall-2 sends logs to splunk with source IP defined as "source IP"

Would splunk automatically place it into a common filed? If so, what would that field be called? If splunk can't place it into a common field what would an admin have to do to accomplish that?

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arjunpkishore5
Motivator

Unless you explicitly override the "host" field, it'll be part of the metadata field "host"

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