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How to run an ldapsearch to find all users in an OU in Active Directory, then export all users' events to a table?

dkorlat
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I need to find all the users in a OU in Active Directory, currently I run:

| ldapsearch domain=internal.local basedn=,OU=Finance,OU=Users,DC=internal,DC=local" scope="sub" search="(objectClass=user)" 

That gets me all the users in the OU. I also export all the users event from safend to a table using:

index=safend source=Safend_DataEventsView sourcetype=dbx2 | sort by -_time | convert timeformat="%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p" ctime(_time) | replace 0 with Read, 1 with Write | eval megabytes=((FileSize/1024)/1024) | eval "File Size"= megabytes + " MB"  | table _time, User, FileName, FileExtension, ClientHost, DeviceDescription, FileOperation, "File Size" , IPAddresses, PolicyName, ClientVersion | rename _time as Time, DeviceDescription as "Device Description", FileName as "File Name", FileExtension as "File Extension", ClientHost as "From PC", FileOperation as "File Operation", PolicyName as "Policy Name", IPAddresses as "IP Address", ClientVersion as "Client Version"

I need to find a way I can first find the users using the ldapsearch and then generate a table using the above command.
When I run the LDAP command in a subsearch, no data is shown to run the second command find.

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Change userNameField to be the name of the username field in the ldap subsearch.

index=safend source=Safend_DataEventsView sourcetype=dbx2 [| ldapsearch domain=internal.local basedn="OU=Finance,OU=Users,DC=internal,DC=local" scope="sub" search="(objectClass=user)" | fields userNameField ] | sort by -_time | convert timeformat="%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p" ctime(_time) | replace 0 with Read, 1 with Write | eval megabytes=((FileSize/1024)/1024) | eval "File Size"= megabytes + " MB" | table _time, User, FileName, FileExtension, ClientHost, DeviceDescription, FileOperation, "File Size" , IPAddresses, PolicyName, ClientVersion | rename _time as Time, DeviceDescription as "Device Description", FileName as "File Name", FileExtension as "File Extension", ClientHost as "From PC", FileOperation as "File Operation", PolicyName as "Policy Name", IPAddresses as "IP Address", ClientVersion as "Client Version"

This will create a search like this:

index=safend source=Safend_DataEventsView sourcetype=dbx2 (userNameField=user1 AND userNameField=user2 AND userNameField=user3 ...) | sort by -_time | convert timeformat="%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p" ctime(_time) | replace 0 with Read, 1 with Write | eval megabytes=((FileSize/1024)/1024) | eval "File Size"= megabytes + " MB" | table _time, User, FileName, FileExtension, ClientHost, DeviceDescription, FileOperation, "File Size" , IPAddresses, PolicyName, ClientVersion | rename _time as Time, DeviceDescription as "Device Description", FileName as "File Name", FileExtension as "File Extension", ClientHost as "From PC", FileOperation as "File Operation", PolicyName as "Policy Name", IPAddresses as "IP Address", ClientVersion as "Client Version"

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Change userNameField to be the name of the username field in the ldap subsearch.

index=safend source=Safend_DataEventsView sourcetype=dbx2 [| ldapsearch domain=internal.local basedn="OU=Finance,OU=Users,DC=internal,DC=local" scope="sub" search="(objectClass=user)" | fields userNameField ] | sort by -_time | convert timeformat="%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p" ctime(_time) | replace 0 with Read, 1 with Write | eval megabytes=((FileSize/1024)/1024) | eval "File Size"= megabytes + " MB" | table _time, User, FileName, FileExtension, ClientHost, DeviceDescription, FileOperation, "File Size" , IPAddresses, PolicyName, ClientVersion | rename _time as Time, DeviceDescription as "Device Description", FileName as "File Name", FileExtension as "File Extension", ClientHost as "From PC", FileOperation as "File Operation", PolicyName as "Policy Name", IPAddresses as "IP Address", ClientVersion as "Client Version"

This will create a search like this:

index=safend source=Safend_DataEventsView sourcetype=dbx2 (userNameField=user1 AND userNameField=user2 AND userNameField=user3 ...) | sort by -_time | convert timeformat="%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p" ctime(_time) | replace 0 with Read, 1 with Write | eval megabytes=((FileSize/1024)/1024) | eval "File Size"= megabytes + " MB" | table _time, User, FileName, FileExtension, ClientHost, DeviceDescription, FileOperation, "File Size" , IPAddresses, PolicyName, ClientVersion | rename _time as Time, DeviceDescription as "Device Description", FileName as "File Name", FileExtension as "File Extension", ClientHost as "From PC", FileOperation as "File Operation", PolicyName as "Policy Name", IPAddresses as "IP Address", ClientVersion as "Client Version"

dkorlat
Explorer

Thanks

This solved the problem:

index=safend source=Safend_DataEventsView sourcetype=dbx2 [| ldapsearch domain=internal.local basedn="OU=Finance,OU=Users,DC=internal,DC=local" scope="sub" search="(objectClass=user)" | eval User =lower(userPrincipalName) | fields User] | sort by -_time | convert timeformat="%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p" ctime(_time) | replace 0 with Read, 1 with Write | eval megabytes=((FileSize/1024)/1024) | eval "File Size"= megabytes + " MB" | table _time, User, FileName, FileExtension, ClientHost, DeviceDescription, FileOperation, "File Size" , IPAddresses, PolicyName, ClientVersion | rename _time as Time, DeviceDescription as "Device Description", FileName as "File Name", FileExtension as "File Extension", ClientHost as "From PC", FileOperation as "File Operation", PolicyName as "Policy Name", IPAddresses as "IP Address", ClientVersion as "Client Version"
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