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removing more than one field value conditionally

TaraAshley
Engager

I am working on a query that lists hosts and their corresponding instances. My results look like the example below. 

I want to only remove the 111222 host when the instance is R: from my results. I am not certain on how to do this within my query. 

HostInstance
111222A:
111222C:
111222R:
333444A:
333444C:
333444R:
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yuanliu
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

"111222 host when the instance is R:" is ambiguous.  You should include an illustration of desired results in a question.

1. The most literal interpretation is to only remove the row with host 111222 AND Instance R:.  In other words, you want

Instancehost
A:111222
C:111222
A:333444
C:333444
R:333444

For this, you can do 

 

 

| where NOT ( host == "111222" AND Instance == "R:")

 

 

BTW I don't think you should rename host to Host until everything is done.

2. But your context makes me suspect that you actually mean to remove host 111222 IF Instance R: runs on it and no matter what other instances are there.  In other words, you want

Instance
R_or_not_R
host
A:
A:
C:
R:
333444
C:
A:
C:
R:
333444
R:
A:
C:
R:
333444

For this, you need

 

 

| eventstats values(Instance) as R_or_not_R by host
| where host != "111222" OR R_or_not_R != "R:"​

 

 

Which one is it?

Here is an emulation

 

| makeresults format=csv data="host,	Instance
111222,	A:
111222,	C:
111222,	R:
333444,	A:
333444,	C:
333444,	R:"
``` data emulation above ```

 

 

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