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Implementing Splunk (Update)
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Implementing Splunk (Update)

by VINCENT BUMGARNER, James D. Miller
July 2015
Beginner to intermediate
506 pages
10h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Lookup attributes

Lets discuss lookup attributes now. Splunk can use the existing lookup definitions to match the values of an attribute that you select to values of a field in the specified lookup table. It then returns the corresponding field/value combinations and applies them to your object as (lookup) attributes.

Once again, if you click Add Attribute and select Lookup, Splunk opens the Add Attributes with a Lookup page (shown in the following screenshot) where you can select from your currently defined lookup definitions. For this example, we select dnslookup:

Lookup attributes

The dnslookup converts clienthost to clientip. We can configure a lookup attribute ...

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