When did having an index become mandatory? Is it possible to turn off the mandatory feature?

[jwhughes58]

I'm doing some testing and figured out I need to run this in a savedsearch to extract the JSON field values.

index=dam sourcetype="imperva:dam"
| eval dam_json=_raw
| rex field=dam_json mode=sed "s/^.* \{/{/g"
| eval dam_json=replace(dam_json, "\\\\", "-") 
| spath input=dam_json

This removes the header "Dec 9 20:15:27 FQDN" and leaves the JSON between the {}.  When I try to use the saved search in a datamodel I get this error

In handler 'datamodeledit': Error in 'Imperva_DB_Audit': Dataset constraints must specify at least one index. 

The Splunk version on my laptop is Splunk 8.1.0 (build f57c09e87251).  On the production system we are running Splunk 7.3.6 (build 47d8552a4d84) and an index isn't necessary since we have one datamodel with this as the constraints.

dlp_rule_severity="HIGH"

So two questions.  When did having an index become mandatory?  Is it possible to turn off the mandatory feature?  If not, we will have to go through our datamodels before we upgrade.

TIA,

Joe

[sylax]

- Go to settings > all configuration > search for your datamodel constraint index e.g. cim_Malware_indexes
- edit the macro definition from "()" to "(index=*)" and save the macro
- go back to the datamodel constraint and remove any additional info not included in the original constraint "(`cim_Malware_indexes`) tag=malware tag=attack" and save the datamodel
- go back to the macro and reverse "(index=*)" to "()"

your datamodel should now have the (`cim_Malware_indexes`) tag=malware tag=attack as it's constraints

[krispyswitch]

Hi -

I can't offer any suggestions, but am also running into the same issue.  Using a DM on Splunk 7.2.1 with no problems.  The DM constraints use tags from eventtypes that include the index/sourcetype.  Have never seen the "Dataset constraints must specify at least one index" on 7.2.1

However migrating the DM over to an 8.0.6 splunk, this error appears for each root search:  "This object has no explicit index constraint. Consider adding one for better performance." and editing a constraint results in "In handler 'datamodeledit': Error in 'WT_CloudInfrastructure': Dataset constraints must specify at least one index."   All relevant tags/eventytpes exist.  

As Joe asked, is it possible to disable or fix this problem?

Thanks,

Kris