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Field Extraction from vcenter sshd logs

santosh_scb
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Hi team, I would like to extract the following fields from vcenter logs that are being sent to Splunk on a dedicated port.

Sample log as below:

2021-01-18T06:21:11.752139+00:00 test101 sshd[21656] Accepted password for root from 76.87.981.72 port 49881 ssh2

I am already using the Splunk_TA_vcenter from splunk_add_on_from_vmware but no luck in extraction.

Need to extract the following fields:

Field name    Field value

app                    sshd

user                   root

src_ip               76.87.981.72

dest                   test101

action               success

tag                      authentication 

thanks in advance.

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