Splunk® Common Information Model Add-on

Common Information Model Add-on Manual

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Release notes for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on

New features

Version 4.2.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on includes the following new features:

Resolved date Issue number Description
04/10/15 CIM-280 Move Missing Extractions and Untagged Searches to a new data model: CIM Validation (S.o.S.)
02/25/15 CIM-277 Add lookup for corporate web domains.
12/09/14 CIM-268 Convert eventtype_tag_center to Simple XML due to Advanced XML deprecation.

Fixed issues

Version 4.2.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on fixes the following issues:

Resolved date Defect number Description
02/20/15 CIM-247 Field "icmp_type" in Network Traffic data model should be a number, not a string.
02/20/15 CIM-272 Command datamodelinfo should indicate that it only returns results for accelerated models.
02/20/15 CIM-251 Field "time_submitted" in Ticket Management data model should be a time, not a string.
02/19/15 CIM-248 Field "file_size" in Change Analysis data model should be a number, not a string.
02/19/15 CIM-252 Field "entry" for Network Resolution data model is not needed and should be removed.
02/27/15 CIM-278 Malware src field is missing.

Known issues

Version 4.2.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on has the following known issues:

Date Defect number Description
10/24/14 CIM-238 BaseEvent object hierarchy makes accelerated search unwieldy.
10/03/14 CIM-221 In Ticket Management, field "dest" should be used for the machine that the ticket concerns.
10/03/14 CIM-221 Field extraction should avoid variable keys whenever possible.
10/03/14 CIM-220 Event types should avoid KV whenever possible.
07/07/14 CIM-169 Remote search log warning messages from acceleration due to long search strings. Workaround: turn off truncation on indexers in etc/system/local/props.conf as shown:

[splunkd_remote_searches]

TRUNCATE = 0

10/11/13 CIM-85 Inconsistent use of url and uri in Web data model fields.

Third-party software attributions

Version 4.2.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on does not incorporate any third-party software or libraries.

Last modified on 05 October, 2015
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Common Information Model Add-on: 4.2.0


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