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How do I extract this Operating System field from my sample data?

sumansah
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I have exported a CSV from Nessus and I want to extract "Remote operating system : " and want the result as Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Service Pack 1 and Juniper Junos Version 12.3R7.7

Any suggestions?

Sample Data:

"11936","","","None","192.168.1.4","tcp","0","OS Identification","It is possible to guess the remote operating system.","Using a combination of remote probes (e.g. TCP/IP, SMB, HTTP, NTP, SNMP, etc.), it is possible to guess the name of the remote operating system in use. It is also sometimes possible to guess the version of the operating system.","n/a",""," Remote operating system : Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Service Pack 1 Confidence level : 99

"11936","","","None","192.168.1.7","tcp","0","OS Identification","It is possible to guess the remote operating system.","Using a combination of remote probes (e.g. TCP/IP, SMB, HTTP, NTP, SNMP, etc.), it is possible to guess the name of the remote operating system in use. It is also sometimes possible to guess the version of the operating system.","n/a",""," Remote operating system : Juniper Junos Version 12.3R7.7
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kbarker302
Communicator

It sounds like you want to do a field extraction:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/Knowledge/ExtractfieldsinteractivelywithIFX

If the two examples above are from your search results, you should be able to do the following:

Expand one of the search results

Click Event Actions -- Extract Field

Click Regular Expressions -- Click Next

Select the value for the operating system (ex: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Service Pack 1). Select just the value, not the "Remote operating system" label

Enter a name for the field (ex: remote_os) and click Add Extraction

Click Next a couple more times and click Save.

When you do a search on that data again, you should see remote_os show up as an interesting field.

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kbarker302
Communicator

It sounds like you want to do a field extraction:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/Knowledge/ExtractfieldsinteractivelywithIFX

If the two examples above are from your search results, you should be able to do the following:

Expand one of the search results

Click Event Actions -- Extract Field

Click Regular Expressions -- Click Next

Select the value for the operating system (ex: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Service Pack 1). Select just the value, not the "Remote operating system" label

Enter a name for the field (ex: remote_os) and click Add Extraction

Click Next a couple more times and click Save.

When you do a search on that data again, you should see remote_os show up as an interesting field.

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