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Advise a rex for domain\username example windows\mathews

LintuMathews
Explorer

can you please advise a rex for domain\username example windows\mathews

Below is sample of event I am trying to extract

http://windows/corp/it/us\x00\x00admin/forms/allitems.aspx\x00windows\mathews\x00
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somesoni2
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Give this a try

Updated

your base search | rex field=yourfieldname  "windows\\\\(?<UserName>\w+)"

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| gentimes start=-1 | eval temp="http://windows/corp/it/us\x00\x00admin/forms/allitems.aspx\x00windows\mathews\x00" | table temp | rex field=temp "windows\\\\(?<UserName>\w+)"
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LintuMathews
Explorer

Didn't work out, the domain name here "windows`mathews`" where "windows" is like a static domain name i have in all the logs meaning I dont have anyother domains except "windows", I just want to grab the username out of it

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

try the updated query

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Skippy
Explorer

That will work if your usernames only ever contain a-z 0-9 or _

This one will match any character up to a \

your base search | rex field=yourfieldname "windows\\(?.+?)\"

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LintuMathews
Explorer

I was hoping something like this would work, this was generated through the erex , but needs some adjustments i guess

rex "(?i)windows\(?P[^\]+)"

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