Developing a CIM compliant add-on, is it mandatory to map ALL my data fields to those of the data model's?

[prabhasgupte]

When developing CIM compliant add-on, is it mandatory to map ALL of my data fields to the data model's fields?

Does that affect/keep my data from appearing in ES?

[MichaelPriest]

No you don't have to map all of your fields when creating the data model. You may have 50 data fields but only want 25 in your data model, you set this when creating it, you specify the fields to include. Have a look at the Knowledge Manager Manual located here for more detail:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Knowledge/WhatisSplunkknowledge