Change

The Change data model replaces the Change Analysis data model, which is deprecated as of software version 4.12.0.

Change.Endpoint is for administrative and policy types of changes to infrastructure security devices, servers, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems. The Endpoint data model is for monitoring endpoint clients including, but not limited to, end user machines, laptops, and bring your own devices (BYOD). If an event is about an endpoint process, service, file, port, and so on, see the Endpoint data model.

The fields in the Change data model describe Create, Read, Update, and Delete activities from any data source.

Note: A dataset is a component of a data model. In versions of the Splunk platform prior to version 6.5.0, these were referred to as data model objects.

Difference between the Endpoint and Change data models

The Change data model is built to make administrator type changes that include changes in devices, servers, Cloud environments, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems. EDR systems are mapped to the Change data model and the Endpoint dataset, but not mapped to the endpoints clients.

The Endpoint data model replaces the Application State data model. The Application State data model was deprecated in CIM version 4.12.0. The architecture of the Endpoint data model is different than the Application State data model. Each data set is directly searchable as DataModel.DataSet rather than by node name.

The fields and tags in the Endpoint data model describe service or process inventory and state, such as Unix daemons, Windows services, running processes on any OS, or similar systems.

The Endpoint data model is for monitoring endpoint clients including, but not limited to, end user machines, laptops, and bring your own devices (BYOD). If an event is about an endpoint process, service, file, port, and so on, then it relates to the Endpoint data model. For administrative and policy types of changes to infrastructure security devices, servers, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems, see Change.Endpoint in the Change data model.

The structure "Change.Endpoint" represents "DataModel.DataSet".

Tags used with Change event datasets

The following tags act as constraints to identify your events as being relevant to this data model. For more information, see How to use these reference tables.

Dataset name	Tag name
All_Changes	change
|____ Auditing_Changes	audit
|____ Endpoint_Changes	endpoint
|____ Network_Changes	network
|____ Account_Management	account
|____ Instance_Changes	instance

The Endpoint_Changes dataset includes events associated with the administrative changes for configurations, policies, and so on of EDR systems.

The Auditing_Changes dataset includes events associated with auditing service changes. These include device audit services such as stop, start, restart, disable, reconfigure, audit log clear, and so on.

Fields for Change event datasets

The key for using the column titled "Notes" or "Abbreviated list of example values" is as follows:

• Recommended: Add-on developers make their best effort attempts to map these event fields. If these fields are not populated, then the event is not very useful.
• Required: Add-on developers must map these event fields when using the pytest-splunk-addon to test for CIM compatibility. See pytest-splunk-addon documentation.
• Prescribed values: Permitted values that can populate the fields, which Splunk is using for a particular purpose. Other valid values exist, but Splunk is not relying on them.
• Other values: Other example values that you might see.

For even more examples, see Change Field Mapping.

Dataset name	Field name	Data type	Description	Notes
All_Changes	action	string	The action attempted on the resource, regardless of success or failure.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon prescribed values: acl_modified,cleared,created, deleted, modified, stopped,lockout, read, logoff, updated, started, restarted,unlocked
All_Changes	change_type	string	The type of change, such as filesystem or AAA (authentication, authorization, and accounting).	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon prescribed values: NA
All_Changes	command	string	The command that initiated the change.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	dest	string	The resource where change occurred. You can alias this from more specific fields not included in this data model, such as dest_host, dest_ip, or dest_name.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	dest_bunit	string	These fields are automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for these fields when writing add-ons.
All_Changes	dest_category	string
All_Changes	dest_priority	string
All_Changes	dvc	string	The device that reported the change, if applicable, such as a FIP or CIM server. You can alias this from more specific fields not included in this data model, such as dvc_host, dvc_ip, or dvc_name.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	object	string	Name of the affected object on the resource (such as a router interface, user account, or server volume).	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	object_attrs	string	The object's attributes and their values. The attributes and values can be those that are updated on a resource object, or those that are not updated but are essential attributes.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	object_category	string	Generic name for the class of the updated resource object. Expected values may be specific to an app, for example: registry, directory, file, group, user, bucket, instance.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	object_id	string	The unique updated resource object ID as presented to the system, if applicable (for instance, a SID, UUID, or GUID value).	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	object_path	string	The path of the modified resource object, if applicable (such as a file, directory, or volume).	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	result	string	The vendor-specific result of a change, or clarification of an action status. For instance, status=failure may be accompanied by result=blocked by policy or result=disk full.	recommended
All_Changes	result_id	string	A result indicator for an action status.	recommended
All_Changes	src	string	The resource where the change was originated. You can alias this from more specific fields not included in the data model, such as src_host, src_ip, or src_name.	recommended
All_Changes	src_bunit	string	These fields are automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for these fields when writing add-ons.
All_Changes	src_category	string
All_Changes	src_priority	string
All_Changes	status	string	Status of the update.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon prescribed values: success, failure
All_Changes	tag	string	This automatically generated field is used to access tags from within datamodels. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
All_Changes	user	string	The user or entity performing the change. For account changes, this is the account that was changed. See src_user for user or entity performing the change.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	user_agent	string	The user agent through which the request was made, such as Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) or aws-cli/2.0.0 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/18.7.0 botocore/2.0.0dev4.
All_Changes	user_name	string	The user name of the user or entity performing the change. For account changes, this is the account that was changed (see src_user_name).	recommended
All_Changes	user_type	string	The type of the user involved in the event or who initiated the event, such as IAMUser, Admin, or System. For account management events, this should represent the type of the user changed by the request.
All_Changes	vendor_account	string	The account that manages the user that initiated the request. The account represents the organization, or a Cloud customer or a Cloud account.
All_Changes	vendor_product	string	The vendor and product or service that detected the change. This field can be automatically populated by vendor and product fields in your data.	recommended required for pytest-splunk-addon
All_Changes	vendor_region	string	The data center region where the change occurred, such as us-west-2.
Account_Management	dest_nt_domain	string	The NT domain of the destination, if applicable.	recommended
Account_Management	src_nt_domain	string	The NT domain of the source, if applicable.	recommended
Account_Management	src_user	string	For account changes, the user or entity performing the change.	recommended
Account_Management	src_user_bunit	string	These fields are automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Account_Management	src_user_category	string
Account_Management	src_user_priority	string
Account_Management	src_user_name	string	For account changes, the user name of the user or entity performing the change.	recommended
Account_Management	src_user_type	string	For account management events, this should represent the type of the user changed by the request.
Instance_Changes	image_id	string	For create instance events, this field represents the image ID used for creating the instance such as the OS, applications, installed libraries, and more.	recommended
Instance_Changes	instance_type	string	For create instance events, this field represents the type of instance to build such as the combination of CPU, memory, storage, and network capacity.	recommended
Network_Changes	dest_ip_range	string	For network events, the outgoing traffic for a specific destination IP address range. Specify a single IP address or an IP address range in CIDR notation. For example, 203.0.113.5 or 203.0.113.5/32.
Network_Changes	dest_port_range	string	For network events, this field represents destination port or range. For example, 80 or 8000 - 8080 or 80,443.
Network_Changes	direction	string	For network events, this field represents whether the traffic is inbound or outbound.
Network_Changes	protocol	string	This field represents the protocol for the network event rule.
Network_Changes	rule_action	string	For network events, this field represents whether to allow or deny traffic.
Network_Changes	src_ip_range	string	For network events, this field represents the incoming traffic from a specific source IP address or range. Specify a single IP address or an IP address range in CIDR notation. For example, 203.0.113.5 or 203.0.113.5/32.
Network_Changes	src_port_range	string	For network events, this field represents source port or range. For example, 80 or 8000 - 8080 or 80,443.
Network_Changes	device_restarts	string	Monitor all infrastructure device restarts.

The Endpoint_Changes dataset and the Auditing_Changes dataset do not have any specific fields.