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Sourcetype cannot work with RENAME

catty
Engager

I trying to rename sourcetype for this regex but won't work
but when i remove the rename = httpd-access its work?

[access]

rename = httpd-access

EXTRACT-ip = [(?P[^]]+)

EXTRACT-host = (?i)^[^,]*,\d+\s+(?P[^ ]+)

i using splunk Uforwarder

[monitor:///opt/log/*]

sourcetype = access

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Ledion_Bitincka
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I am not sure I completely understand your question, but I am going to assume that your field extractions are not working when you have rename attribute set.

Sourcetype renaming is a search time operation that happens before field extractions. Thus Splunk will use search-time field extractions defined in [httpd-access] stanza for events that have been indexed as coming from the "access" sourcetype. Give the following props.conf stanzas (in the search head) a test run

[access]
rename = httpd-access

[httpd-access]
EXTRACT-ip = [(?P<ip>[^]]+)
EXTRACT-host = (?i)^[^,]*,d+s+(?P<host>[^ ]+)

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Ledion_Bitincka
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I am not sure I completely understand your question, but I am going to assume that your field extractions are not working when you have rename attribute set.

Sourcetype renaming is a search time operation that happens before field extractions. Thus Splunk will use search-time field extractions defined in [httpd-access] stanza for events that have been indexed as coming from the "access" sourcetype. Give the following props.conf stanzas (in the search head) a test run

[access]
rename = httpd-access

[httpd-access]
EXTRACT-ip = [(?P<ip>[^]]+)
EXTRACT-host = (?i)^[^,]*,d+s+(?P<host>[^ ]+)

catty
Engager

that work great help..! thank you very much.. FIXED!

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