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Windows Events with Null Message

richnavis
Contributor

Splunk is reporting a majority of my windows events are being returned with "Null" in the message field. However, When I review the same message on the server on which the message occurred, there is information in the eventdata field.

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richnavis
Contributor

Figured it out.. Needed to restart SplunkD to establish new connection to windows servers.

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richnavis
Contributor

Could also restart WMI service on the windows servers to reset the WMI connection

bjoernjensen
Contributor

To restart the WMI Service:

net stop winmgmt 
net start winmgmt 

Link

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Brian_Osburn
Builder

I think this is related to this bug:
The Message field is not extracted and is therefore missing from imported Windows event log file (.evt) data. (SPL-24947) (the list of known issues are located here)

From what I understand that this is a troublesome bug which resides mostly on Microsoft's side.

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