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Why is the search bringing "-" account results for event 4625?

sjimenezp
New Member

Hi,

This is the search that we are using for the dashboard and it brings all events with value "-".

index=wineventlog EventCode=4625 host=* Account_Name!=*$  | stats count by Account_Name
| eventstats  sum(count) as Failures by count | table Account_Name, Failures  | sort -Failures

Please advice

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nickhills
Ultra Champion

Do you see the SID reported in those events?

If so, it may be that you do not have evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1 set on the inputs.conf stanza for the security event log.

This setting will force the Splunk UF to try to resolve the SID to a user account
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Inputsconf#Windows_Event_Log_Monitor

See this post, where I made a few suggestions on how to address this
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/732772/why-are-user-details-missing-in-the-splunk-logs.html#answe...

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Advise about what? What are your desired results?

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