I know this is a Splunk newbie question but I am having some issues getting this to work. I have a column field named "Account_Name" from a sourcetype="AD", for instance. I am creating a form where there are several empty text fields (Account Name, IP Address, Host Name, etc). I may have all of the fields or I may have just one piece of information pertaining to a particular event. Based on which field contains a value (e.g. length of character string is greater than 0), I'd like to assign the character string a default value to search. So if I have a variable named $test_account_name$, I'd like to be able to run something like this: eval XYZ=if($test_account_name$!=0, $test_account_name$,"*") Here is where things go beyond my realm of Splunk understanding. At this point, the new variable XYZ should be assigned a value of $test_account_name$ OR contain a wildcard ("*"). Now, I want to be able to pass the contents of XYZ back to the original variable "Account_Name" in order to search the sourcetype with the results contained in XYZ. I am sure there is a more appropriate function to perform this but I figured I would ask! Thanks in advance! ... View more

We currently have several logs that only capture the IP address of the asset performing the activity. A simple "nbtstat -a " will return the name of the asset within the windows command prompt. Is there a way we can automate this name resolution through automatically running a batch (.bat) file when it returns the first ten results (e.g. top 10)? Since the host names will depend on the current IP Address assignment it seems that this will need to be done as close to real time as possible. Any suggestions or workarounds? Thank you! ... View more

How are other users utilizing Splunk to monitor privileged account usage in Windows/*nix environments? I'm looking for dashboards/report ideas and any other alerts that others have created for enterprise monitoring that we may be able to adapt. Thanks! ... View more