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How to blacklist indexing a security event based on the Account Name?

rwiltzius
Explorer

I'm running the Splunk Universal Forwarder and I've configured the inputs.conf for the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows to monitor the Security event logs for Windows.

At this time though I'm looking to blacklist / not index any security event that displays a specific account name. The account name is "wilmsplunksvc".

I've went ahead and created a blacklist within the inputs.conf without any luck. Below is the syntax I used.

blacklist4 = Account_Name="wilmsplunksvc"

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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rjthibod
Champion

Look at this answer: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/417989/how-to-edit-my-wineventlog-blacklist-configuration.html

Maybe try this:

    blacklist= Message="Account\sName:\s+wilmsplunksvc"

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rjthibod
Champion

Look at this answer: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/417989/how-to-edit-my-wineventlog-blacklist-configuration.html

Maybe try this:

    blacklist= Message="Account\sName:\s+wilmsplunksvc"
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rwiltzius
Explorer

Thank you for your quick response. The syntax you provided did the trick.

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