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scripted alert providing a results.csv with fields containing underscores

jaoui
Path Finder

My full search is as follows:

index=main node_action action=added | eval ip=if(ip=="0.0.0.0",null(),ip) | eval ip_orig=ip | lookup arp mac_addr | eval ip=if(isnull(ip_orig),ip,ip_orig) | eval ip=if(ip="[UNKNOWN]","",ip) | fields - _raw | fields mac_addr ip mac_type | eval mac_addr=mvjoin(mac_addr,", ") | eval ip=mvjoin(ip, ", ") | eval node_type=mvjoin(node_type, ", ") | rename ip as ip_addr |table mac_addr ip_addr mac_type

but when i unzip results.csv, I see fields with "__mv_" that I would like to exclude from my csv results:

"mac_addr","__mv_mac_addr","ip_addr","__mv_ip_addr","mac_type","__mv_mac_type"

Any ideas how to do that?

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ziegfried
Influencer

This is because the mac_addr and ip field contain multiple values (ie. they are multivalue field). You can circumvent this by joining the multivalue fields in your search:

... | eval mac_addr=mvjoin(mac_addr,", ") | eval ip=mvjoin(ip, ", ")

See http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions

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jaoui
Path Finder

I added that to my search but it does not seem to fix my issue...

As my search is contains too many characters, I will add it to my initial question

in the search app, I don't see the additional fields such as "__mv_mac_addr" (even when I do "... | table *" but the results.csv contains them

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