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Unable to anonymize / mask data using regex

zerolife
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I'm trying to mask the IP address from the below sample syslog per the following guide but it's just not working. Is my regex expression wrong? I'm no regex guru so I'm generating the regex expression from online tools.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.2/Data/Anonymizedatausingconfigurationfiles

Sample Log:
Apr 11 10:47:30 192.168.1.1 stingray_xml_slave: ....

pref.conf:

[syslog]
TRANSFORMS-anonymize = testing

transforms.conf:

[testing]
REGEX = \b\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\b
FORMAT = $1#####$2
DEST_KEY = _raw

I also tried the following Regex expresion generated by txt2re.com with no luck either:

((?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?))(?![\\d])
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try this.

props.conf

[syslog]
SEDCMD-ipaddress = s/\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/xxxxx/g

no transforms.conf entries.

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zerolife
Explorer

I was an idiot, had mistyped props -> pref. thanks somesoni2 and Ayn for your help

Ayn
Legend

Any particular reason why you're using TRANSFORMS for this and not SEDCMD?

Also I'm assuming "pref.conf" is a typo?

...and finally where are you implementing this, on an indexer?

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try this.

props.conf

[syslog]
SEDCMD-ipaddress = s/\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/xxxxx/g

no transforms.conf entries.

zerolife
Explorer

thanks for the try. However I rebooted Splunk and it's still not masking incoming syslog

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