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srajanbabu
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I have below requirement, some one Please guide how do I achieve using Splunk

I have host called SourceHost where log files are generated and I have another host called TargetHost where I have to transform the source log and write.

Source log
SNM5 YAHOO3SN.#### :: 03/03/13 00:00:07 :: B ::User yahoo3sn logged in
SNM4 YAHOO3SN.871F :: 03/03/13 00:00:07 :: S ::User logged off, Processing will begin

Target log
Buy | 13/03/03 | YAHOO3SN |03/03/13 00:00:07 | User yahoo3sn logged in
Sell | 13/03/03 | SNM4 |03/03/13 00:00:07 | logged off, Processing will begin

where
1. B stands for buy and S stand for sell
2. Soruce date is mm/dd/yy and target date is yy/mm/dd
3. if third word in the log is "####" then pickup the second word otherwise pickup the first word.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Something like this should do the job.

... | rex "(?<field1>.*?)\s(?<field2>.*?)\.(?<field3>.*?)\s::(?<mon>.*?)/(?<day>.*?)/(?<year>.*?)\s(?<time>.*?)\s::\s(?<BS>.*?)\s::(?<msg>.*)" | eval trade=case(BS="B","Buy",BS="S","Sell") | eval output3=if(field3="####",field2,field1) | eval targetLog=trade." | ".year."/".mon."/".day." ".time." | ".msg | ...

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You won't be able to have Splunk process the log without indexing it. You should be able to make the transformation happen on input by adding a similar REGEX statement to your transforms.conf file.

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srajanbabu
Explorer

Thanks for the swift response, however I have few concerns.
I assume, this regex will be performed on indexed file, I would like this tranformation happend as I read the input file and If possible i want to tranfer the data to target host without a footprint in splunk server.

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