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Sub Search Help please

peterb
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Hi All

Can anyone explain where my search is wrong?

sourcetype="access_log" [search sourcetype="GAMESAPI*" SID | rex field=_raw "\[SID\]\s=>\s(?<SID>[0-9]*)" | top SID limit=1 | table SID] | rex field=_raw "(?i)^(?P<IP>[^ ]*)(?= )"

I am trying to extract the most common SID within a GAMESAPI log and use that value to search the access_log for the corrosponding IP addresses.

The following search returns the top SID:

sourcetype="GAMESAPI*" SID | rex field=_raw "\[SID\]\s=>\s(?<SID>[0-9]*)" | top SID limit=1 | table SID

And this search will return the IP address from the access_log:

sourcetype="access_log" | rex field=_raw "(?i)^(?P<IP>[^ ]*)(?= )"

Seperately, the two searches work, as a subsearch, they fail. Any ideas?

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Your subsearch, if it produces a list if SID, will be expanded to something like:

((SID="1234") OR (SID="2345") OR (SID="3456"))

which means your resulting search will be:

sourcetype="access_log" ((SID="1234") OR (SID="2345") OR (SID="3456"))

I have no idea whether SID is extracted from access_log, but I'm guessing it's not, which would be the problem.

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