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query optimization on IP adress

Nico99
Explorer

Hello community!

I'm looking for a way to optimize this search below and I need some help :

 

index="oswinsec" source="XmlWinEventLog:Security" TargetUserName Kerberos earliest=-5min
| regex TargetUserName="^([a-z]+)\.([a-z]+)"
| regex IpAddress="\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}" | eval Octet1=mvindex(split(IpAddress,"."), 0) | eval Octet2=mvindex(split(IpAddress,"."), 1) | eval Octet3=mvindex(split(IpAddress,"."), 2) | where (Octet1=10 AND Octet2=244 AND Octet3>=192 AND Octet3<=255) OR (Octet1=172 AND Octet2=24)  
| dedup TargetUserName | table TargetUserName IpAddress

 

 

Thanking you!!

regards

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What is it you wish to optimize?

Have you looked at the cidrmatch function?

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Nico99
Explorer

No i hadn't seen this function.
We tried and it's indeed simpler.

Thank you so much!!

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What is it you wish to optimize?

Have you looked at the cidrmatch function?

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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