Asset and identity fields after processing in Splunk Enterprise Security

The following tables describe the fields that exist in the asset and identity lookups after Splunk Enterprise Security finishes processing the source lookup files. These fields are the fields present in the lookups that store merged asset and identity data. See Lookups that store merged asset and identity data in Splunk Enterprise Security.

For more information about the merge process, see How Splunk Enterprise Security processes and merges asset and identity data.

Asset fields after processing

Asset fields of the asset lookup after the saved searches perform the merge process.

Field	Action taken by ETL
bunit	unchanged
city	unchanged
country	unchanged
dns	Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
lat	unchanged
long	unchanged
mac	Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
nt_host	Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
owner	unchanged
priority	unchanged
asset_id	Generated from the values of dns, ip, mac, and nt_host fields.
asset_tag	Generated from the values of category, pci_domain, is_expected, should_timesync, should_update, requires_av, and bunit fields.
category	Appends "pci" if the value contains "cardholder". Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
ip	Validates and splits the field into CIDR subnets as necessary. Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
pci_domain	Appends "trust" or "untrust" based on certain field values. Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
is_expected	Normalized to a boolean.
should_timesync	Normalized to a boolean.
should_update	Normalized to a boolean.
requires_av	Normalized to a boolean.
key	Generated by the ip, mac, nt_host, and dns fields after the original fields are transformed.

Identity fields after processing

Identity fields of the identity lookup after the saved searches perform the merge process.

Field	Action taken by ETL
bunit	unchanged
email	unchanged
endDate	unchanged
first	unchanged
last	unchanged
managedBy	unchanged
nick	unchanged
phone	unchanged
phone2	unchanged
prefix	unchanged
priority	unchanged
startDate	unchanged
suffix	unchanged
work_city	unchanged
work_country	unchanged
work_lat	unchanged
work_long	unchanged
watchlist	Normalized to a boolean.
category	Appends "pci" if the value contains "cardholder". Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
identity	Generated based on values in the input row and conventions specified in the Identity Lookup Configuration. Accepts pipe-delimited values and converts them to a multi-value field.
identity_id	Generated from the values of identity, first, last, and email.
identity_tag	Generated from the values of bunit, category, and watchlist.