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GEOIP and Internal IP Lookup Problems

MHS
Explorer

I built a CSV file for my internal IP addresses with office coordinates. Here are the first two lines of that text file:

clientip,name,lat,lon

10.200.0.0/8,My Office,38.746971,-90.464752

I went into the GUI and went to Management, Lookups, Lookup Table Files, New and added the file as geoip_internal.csv (making sure the app context was set to Google Maps (maps)).

I then went to Lookup Definitions, New and created geoip_internal and created it using a type of "File-based" and a Lookup file of geoip_internal.csv (making sure the app context was set to Google Mapes(maps)).

How do I specify from the GUI that I want to a CIDR lookup on this?

Right now if I do a search in the Google Maps app using the search string "sourcetype="router" | lookup geoip_internal clientip as host" it says there are 984 matches. My sample data file is only 984 rows. Nothing maps and if I click on "Events" it shows nothing.

If I modify that search "sourcetype="router" | lookup geoip_internal clientip as host | geoip clientip" it says there are 6 matches. Which is right there are only 6 different hosts in the sample file. It still doesn't map anything and "Events" still shows nothing.

I believe the CIDR lookup is the issue but I could be wrong.

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Damien_Dallimor
Ultra Champion

I don't see a way of specifying the CIDR matching via Splunk web.

But you can add a "match_type" property to your lookup stanza in transforms.conf.

Try something like this :

[geoip_internal]
filename = geoip_internal.csv
max_matches = 1
min_matches = 1
match_type = CIDR(clientip)

Damien_Dallimor
Ultra Champion

Did you restart Splunk ?

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MHS
Explorer

I added this entry to the a transforms.conf I created in the /splunk/etc/system/local directory and stiff nothing is mapping. I may just blow this out and start over again since this is just a lab instance of Splunk. I know I'm missing something very simple here.

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