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How to name with statistic/visualization?

jialiu907
Path Finder

I am new to Splunk and I wanted to make a dashboard to showcase the count of Linux machines and their distributions in the environment. I have gotten the search to be almost what I want except the output statistic is wrong in the naming. 

This is the current search.

 

index=main host=* sourcetype=syslog process=elcsend "\"config " "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)" OR "Rocky Linux release 8.7 (Green Obsidian)" OR "Rocky Linux release 9.1 (Blue Onyx)" 
| rex "CentOS Linux release (?P<vers>\d.\d)" 
| eval vers = "CentOS ".vers 
| rex "Rocky Linux release (?P<vers>\d.\d)" 
| eval vers = "Rocky ".vers
| dedup host 
| stats count by vers
| addcoltotals label=Total labelfield=vers
| sort count desc

 

 And this is the output.splunk1.png

 

 

 

I am looking to have "Rocky CentOS 7.9" to just be named "CentOS 7.9" while the others remain as they are.

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The problem stems from the vers field already having "CentOS" added and then "Rocky " is added.  Try extracting separate version fields.

index=main host=* sourcetype=syslog process=elcsend "\"config " "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)" OR "Rocky Linux release 8.7 (Green Obsidian)" OR "Rocky Linux release 9.1 (Blue Onyx)" 
| rex "CentOS Linux release (?P<vers>\d.\d)" 
| rex "Rocky Linux release (?P<vers>\d.\d)" 
index=main host=* sourcetype=syslog process=elcsend "\"config " "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)" OR "Rocky Linux release 8.7 (Green Obsidian)" OR "Rocky Linux release 9.1 (Blue Onyx)" 
| rex "CentOS Linux release (?P<Cvers>\d.\d)" 
| rex "Rocky Linux release (?P<Rvers>\d.\d)" 
| eval Cvers = "CentOS ".Cvers 
| eval Rvers = "Rocky ".Rvers
| eval vers = coalesce(Cvers, Rvers)
| dedup host 
| stats count by vers
| addcoltotals label=Total labelfield=vers
| sort count desc
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The problem stems from the vers field already having "CentOS" added and then "Rocky " is added.  Try extracting separate version fields.

index=main host=* sourcetype=syslog process=elcsend "\"config " "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)" OR "Rocky Linux release 8.7 (Green Obsidian)" OR "Rocky Linux release 9.1 (Blue Onyx)" 
| rex "CentOS Linux release (?P<vers>\d.\d)" 
| rex "Rocky Linux release (?P<vers>\d.\d)" 
index=main host=* sourcetype=syslog process=elcsend "\"config " "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)" OR "Rocky Linux release 8.7 (Green Obsidian)" OR "Rocky Linux release 9.1 (Blue Onyx)" 
| rex "CentOS Linux release (?P<Cvers>\d.\d)" 
| rex "Rocky Linux release (?P<Rvers>\d.\d)" 
| eval Cvers = "CentOS ".Cvers 
| eval Rvers = "Rocky ".Rvers
| eval vers = coalesce(Cvers, Rvers)
| dedup host 
| stats count by vers
| addcoltotals label=Total labelfield=vers
| sort count desc
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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