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Why am I unable to convert my addcoltotals value of MB to TB using eval?

dean1
New Member

Hello Splunk Ninjas

I'm trying to convert my addcoltotals of MB to TB using the eval statement which does not work....

index=myindex sourcetype=mysourcetype | table Cluster, Capacity_MB | addcoltotals  label=TOTALS labelfield=Cluster | eval  TOTALS = round(TOTALS/1024,2)

Thanks!

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javiergn
Super Champion

Hi,

Your labelfield=Cluster means that's the name of the field that it's going to store the string "TOTALS".
TOTALS is not a field, it's a value. The field is Capacity_MB.

Therefore if you just want to apply it to that particular row in your table you can do it this way:

| eval Capacity_MB = if(Cluster == "TOTALS", round(Capacity_MB/1024,2), Capacity_MB)

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks,
J

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javiergn
Super Champion

Hi,

Your labelfield=Cluster means that's the name of the field that it's going to store the string "TOTALS".
TOTALS is not a field, it's a value. The field is Capacity_MB.

Therefore if you just want to apply it to that particular row in your table you can do it this way:

| eval Capacity_MB = if(Cluster == "TOTALS", round(Capacity_MB/1024,2), Capacity_MB)

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks,
J

dean1
New Member

Excellent - That worked - Thank you!

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