My company recently rolled out Splunk for our Citrix XenApp 6.5 environment (>900 2008 R2 servers). So I'm running Splunk at home on my personal Debian server to get more exposure to this app...love it btw, keep up the good work.
However, I have this question too on my personal Splunk 5.0.1, build 143156 Debian box...
"...After i created a lot of source type, i want to delete them because there are too many."
Maybe the title of this question could more specifically read "remove (user created) sourcetype" as this is what I'm after as well.
"You need to delete the events carrying those sourcetypes in that case."
This seems to be the way I've seen this question answered in other posts too (I'm done searching/reading, it's time to post), but this doesn't delete the sourcetype in the dropdown box chosen when creating an input file.
Specifically, what is being asked is how are user created sourcetypes deleted/removed from the Set Source Type popup box seen by doing the following: Manager » Data inputs » Files & directories » Data preview > Set Source Type popup box.
So far, I understand the steps to be...
verify your ID has the "delete_by_keyword" capability in Manager » Access controls » Roles » yourID
run sourcetype=User_Created_Foo | Delete in Splunk » Search to remove entries that have have the User_Created_Foo sourcetype
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Dear Splunk Ninja, please answer what task needs to be done to delete the User_Created_Foo indextype from the Set Source Type popup box in step 3.
Thank you very much!
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