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Props and field extraction not working

paul_1994
Path Finder

I was using IFX and regex to extarct fields from my log but I keep getting this error in the Splunkd Log

03-13-2013 05:45:49.662 -0700 WARN AdminManager - Handler 'props-extract' has not performed any capability checks for this operation(requestedAction=edit, customAction="acl", item="iis-xpox : REPORT-iismpos"). This may be a bug.

03-13-2013 05:11:42.920 -0700 WARN AdminManager - Handler 'props-extract' has not performed any capability checks for this operation(requestedAction=list, customAction="acl", item="mpos-devicelog : EXTRACT-xpox-devicelog")

This error pops up everytime I try to change the permissions on the extraction.

This was placed in etc\system\local\props.conf

[xpox-devicelog]
EXTRACT-category-message = [^\]\n]*\]\s+(?P<category>\[([^ ]+|\w+\s+\w+|\w+\s+\w+\s+\w+\s+\w+|)\])\s+(?P<message>.+)

Any help appreciated

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paul_1994
Path Finder

Here was my workaround for now. I moved these configs out of etc\system\local and created another app. This seems to be working for now.

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paul_1994
Path Finder

version 4.3.5

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Make sure that $APP_HOME/metadata has two files: default.meta and local.meta. $APP_HOME is whatever app you were in at the time the error occurred. You should also check those files for anything relating to "iis-xpox" or "xpox-devicelog" to make sure you have permissions to those files. Also, might be a bug (what version Splunk do you have?)

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yeah, those are the metadata for the system folder. Don't mess with the default one, but check the local one for your stanzas.

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paul_1994
Path Finder

Is there a metedata for etc\system\local? files..
There is a etc\system\metadata in which both files are there ( default & local)

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What version of Splunk?

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