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How to take a result from one search into another search

ejans100
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Hi, I'm trying to see if there is an easy way to take a result from event error codes, attempting to logon a disabled account for example, and pipe those users/events to see if they ended up successfully logging in. I'm very new to this so any guidance is much appreciated!

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MuS
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Hi ejans100,

this is called using a subsearch, and it can provide results from one search to another search. There are some things you need to consider before using subsearches, easiest to read here : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Search/Aboutsubsearches#Subsearch_performance_con...

To your question, and without knowing anything about your events you can do something like this:

 index=2 [ index=1 account_status="disabled" action="login" | return account ] | ...

what this does is: it runs the subsearch first (important to know!) and returns the account from index=1 for disabled account_status which had a action=login and searches index=2 for accounts found in index=1.
This is a very simple and basic example, there are also other ways to do this using lookups or stats. But give this a try ...

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

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