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Multi Valued Field Help

ghostdog920
Path Finder

I have looked at a ton of posts about breaking a multivalued field but having zero luck effecting a solution. I have a csv file that i have imported into splunk. In one of the fields, it contains data like this:

Subject Name: Country: US State/Province: Virginia Locality: Glen Allen 

I thought i could do field extractions to turn things like Country: into a field with the value of US, but no luck. I have looked at eval, split, regex, and mvexpand but can't seem to get the right combo/syntax to do what i want. Can someone lend me their expertise in resolving?

Ideally once i break this field up into its individual pieces i want to create a dashboard that check one of them and ties it to all its records. Worry for another day if i can't break up the field.

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Sukisen1981
Champion

it should be visible in the left hand side or append |table Country,State,Locality
Are you able to see those values in a table now?

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Sukisen1981
Champion

This is a bit unclear, assuming you extract the country value from the example you have shown above into a new field using rex ,let's call it cntry. Now, for each column of the CSV having this field you should get your values for cntry.
Can you elaborate a bit more?

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ghostdog920
Path Finder

Can definitely elaborate. Basically we are using Nessus to scan the environment for SSL certificates with the idea of creating a report to identify certs that will be expiring. So the output from nessus is say 10 columns (what i am calling fields) comma delimited that Splunk picks up on. Unfortunately one of those columns houses the elements that individually house about 10 attributes i really want to pull out as fields. I.E. Subject Name:, Common Name:, Country:, State/province:, Issue Date:, etc.

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