Splunk Search

How to search a list of names and compare it to a different list of names?

atebysandwich
Path Finder

I have two lists: one has a list of hostnames and another has a list of prefixes to hostnames. I would like to create a search with an output showing hosts that do not have a name containing  any of the prefixes in the second list. 

Example: 

Inputlookup                                         Lookup

Hostname                                             Hostname Prefix

appletown                                             town
treeville                                                   tree

I would like to create a search showing a list of hostnames from the first list that do not contain any of the hostnames in the second. 

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andrew_nelson
Communicator

You could use wildcard matching on the prefix lookup. 

Create your prefix lookup like this : 
prefix, match_type
*tree*, Tree
*town*, Town 

Then create a lookup definition for the prefix lookup with the additional settings WILDCARD(prefix)

You can then run a search like   

|inputlookup hostsfile 
| lookup prefix_lookup_definition prefix as Hostname



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