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What is the best way to build searches and alerting in a Hyper-V environment in which VMs pull MAC address ?

gg74
Engager

What is the best way to deal with building searches and alerting in a Hyper-V environment in which VMs pull MAC address from a pool controlled by the cluster nodes?  Is setting all of my VMs to use static MAC addresses best practice (this is a large undertaking and would require maintenance) or is there a better way to do this?  Should I rely on another variable to track these assets?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

If you want a deterministic way to track assets, don't use a non-deterministic way of identifying the assets.

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gg74
Engager

Is there a better variable to use than the MAC address?  Something that doesn't rely on manual intervention to set?  Is the GUID or device name the standard?  Just looking options I may not be aware of.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It depends how your assets are set up - often a qualified host name is unique (enough) in your environment to distinguish between different hosts.

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