Splunk Enterprise Security

Why not getting Notables?

timsheets13
Loves-to-Learn

I'm new to ES.  I have taken the ES Admin course so I probably shouldn't have to ask for help but I'm pulling my hair out.

I have a linux host running sshd, no firewall.  This host has the universal forwarder sending events to the index cluster.

I have another linux host running a brute force attack against it.

Search in Splunk clearly shows the failed attempts, thousands of them.

In ES, I have enabled the "Brute Force Access Behavior Detected" correlation search, and added a Adaptive Response Action to create notable.

However, even though there are thousands of matching events, I never get a notable created.

SA_AccessProtection app is installed.

Any ideas of how to troubleshoot this, or what might be wrong greatly appreciated.

 

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tscroggins
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@timsheets13 

Does the "notable" index exist?

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timsheets13
Loves-to-Learn

Yes, once I installed the TA_ForIndexers the indexes where all created.

I can create manual notables no problems.  And if I create an alert in Splunk and make the alert action to create a notable, that works.

However, attempting to create a notable based on a correlative search in ES is not working.

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