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Excluding rows based on field combination

jbdumoulin
Engager

Hello splunkers !

Today I'm building a report, in which I'm tasked to exclude some specific results. These are typical windows authentication logs.
I have certain IP's, and logon type, which when they match should be excluded.

For instance, let's say I have an authentication from IP 195.16.108.1 and a logon type 4, I must exclude it from the report. But I can't specify in my alert

ip="195.16.108.1" AND logon_type!=4

That would only select IP 195.16.108.1 while I want to keep every IP, except 195.16.108.1 when logon type equals 4.

I found a solution with the eval function :

 ... request ...|   eval exclude=if(( ip="195.16.108.1" AND logon_type="4"), "true", "false")) | where exclude!="true" | ... do some formating ...

I wonder then : isn't there another solution to my problem ? Because this one sounds counter intuitiv, having to create a new field with a specific value only to sort which row to keep and which ones to exclude.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi jbdumoulin,
try to use parenthesis:

index=my_index NOT (ip="195.16.108.1" logon_type=4)
| ...

Bye.
Giuseppe

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi jbdumoulin,
try to use parenthesis:

index=my_index NOT (ip="195.16.108.1" logon_type=4)
| ...

Bye.
Giuseppe

jbdumoulin
Engager

Thanks, really simple solution indeed.

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