Thanks for reading, I'm in the process of creating a log to trap for Cisco devices. I have it working for facilities like this: TRINITY-2-TRINITY_SYSLOG_CRIT with this pattern: @ESTRING::%@@ESTRING:.cisco.Facility:-@@ESTRING:.cisco.Severity:-@@ESTRING:.cisco.MsgName::@ @ANYSTRING:.cisco.MsgText@ Now there are other facilities with an additional hyphen before the severity: EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_ERROR: Apr 26 14:04:45 hostname 565049: Apr 26 18:04:43.476 UTC: %EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_ERROR: EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM' which parses into: Testing message: program='EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_ERROR' message='Apr 26 14:04:45 hostname 565049: Apr 26 18:04:43.476 UTC: %EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_ERROR: EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM' Match name='.classifier.rule_id', value='09944c71-95eb-4bc0-8575-936931d85715', expected='09944c71-95eb-4bc0-8575-936931d85715' Wrong match name='.cisco.Facility', value='EARL', expected='EARL-DFC1' Wrong match name='.cisco.Severity', value='DFC1', expected='1' Wrong match name='.cisco.MsgName', value='1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_ERROR', expected='EXCESSIVE_PARITY_ERROR' Match name='.cisco.MsgText', value='EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM', expected='EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM' I've tried a pattern that would parse EARL and DFC1 into separate variables, then append them into .cisco.Facility - which didn't work. Still that leaves the pattern hardcoded to just two hypens. I've also tried hard coding EARL-DFC1 into the pattern, then use value to set .cisco.Facility correctly. This approach works but being hardcoded, another Facility with embedded hyphens will fail. Ideally I'd like to have a pattern that matches on the last hyphen before the severity and capture that. I could parse using a regexp and setting $1, $2, $3, and $4 to the appropriate variables but I'm concerned about performance issues - I'm thinking this is a last resort solution. Any thoughts on how to proceed? Regards, Mark Schoonover - KA6WKE Infrastructure Engineering Manager, Splunk Architect ENE : Tools, Instrumentation and Common Services Team Office: 32.8697° N, 116.9711° W Phone : 770-261-7934 Email : mark.schoonover@cigna.com<mailto:mark.schoonover@cigna.com> HPSM Team: ENE NMS Engineering Confidential, unpublished property of CIGNA. Do not duplicate or distribute. Use and distribution limited solely to authorized personnel. ¬© Copyright 2017 CIGNA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This email transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. Copyright (c) 2017 Cigna ==============================================================================