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Missing Event details when trying to Extract Fields from an Active Directory event

mpatnode
Path Finder

I have the following raw AD event which I can see from my search:

08/16/2010 12:55:56.0110
dcName=w2k3r2.demo.dev
admonEventType=Update
Names:
    objectCategory=CN=Service-Connection-Point,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=demo,DC=dev
    name=bsmith
    displayName=$CimsUserVersion2
    distinguishedName=CN=bsmith,CN=Users,CN=default,CN=Zones,CN=Centrify,CN=Program Data,DC=demo,DC=dev
    cn=bsmith
Object Details:
    objectGUID=cffb0829-0642-134c-2ef1-f03cc696e10b
    whenChanged=20100816195556.0Z
    whenCreated=20070906020209.0Z
    objectClass=top|leaf|connectionPoint|serviceConnectionPoint
Event Details:
    uSNChanged=127046
    uSNCreated=14129
    instanceType=4
Additional Details:
    keywords=foo:1111|bar:3333|too:3333
    showInAdvancedViewOnly=TRUE

Whenever I try to use the "Extact Fields" UI, the event is truncated after "Event Details" in the "Sample events" frame. What's preventing me from seeing the entire event?

1 Solution

carasso
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

In order to prevent the limited screen real estate from exploding, sample events are truncated at 15 lines (with at most 100 events). I have filed a request for improvement.

From the standard search view, you can still manually test out a regex with the 'rex' search command, and when it works, manually add that regex to your source or sourcetype from the Manager (i.e., Manager » Fields » Field extractions)

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carasso
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

In order to prevent the limited screen real estate from exploding, sample events are truncated at 15 lines (with at most 100 events). I have filed a request for improvement.

From the standard search view, you can still manually test out a regex with the 'rex' search command, and when it works, manually add that regex to your source or sourcetype from the Manager (i.e., Manager » Fields » Field extractions)

carasso
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

unfortunately, no.

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mpatnode
Path Finder

Well that explains that. I did figure out how to use 'rex' as a work around. The next question is can I do dynamic field name generation the same way Splunk does? Something like this:

sourcetype="ActiveDirectory" keywords=* | rex field=_raw "keywords=(?<_KEY_1>[a-z]):(?<_VALUE_1>[0-9])

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