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Define a primary service

As part of the Splunk App for PCI Compliance, primary functions are defined as one or more of the following items:

  • Running Process (process name)
  • Installed Service (service name)
  • Listening Port (transport/port combination)

Primary functions are defined in a Splunk lookup table (SA-EndpointProtection/lookups/primary_functions.csv). This lookup table contains three separate primary keys (one for service, process, and transport/port respectively). The remainder of the header determines whether or not the function is primary and what that function is. This results in the following CSV header:

process,service,transport,port,is_primary,function

Function names are arbitrary, but we recommend the following:

    Application (name, for instance "Tomcat")
    Authentication
    Database
    Domain Name Service (DNS)
    Mail
    Proxy
    Network Time Protocol (NTP)
    Web

The SA-EndpointProtection/lookups/primary_functions.csv file contains examples that come with the Splunk App for PCI Compliance.

Lookups

Primary functions running on a system are determined by comparing the defined primary functions with the running processes, installed services, and listening ports found on a system.

  • Running processes are found in the "localprocesses_tracker"
  • Services are found in the "services_tracker"
  • Listening ports are found in the "listeningports_tracker"

For example, the following search examines the "localprocesses_tracker for primary functions":

| inputlookup append=T localprocesses_tracker | `get_primary_function(process)` | rename app as process

Compliance Managers may want to use multiple services and/or processes to determine the primary function of a system. This is easily done as long as the function name is consistent among applications in the stack.

To do this, you will need to define a primary service. You can have several service names that represent an application stack but a single function. In the SA-EndpointProtection/lookups/primary_functions.csv file identify all of the services and/or processes associated with the primary function with the same function name.

For example:

process service transport port is_primary function
apple true improve health
banana true improve health
carrot true improve health

The following search simulates a system running these services to show how they result in a single function:

| head 1 | stats count | eval service="apple|banana|carrot" | `makemv(service)` | rename service as app | mvexpand app | `get_primary_function(service)` | stats dc(function)

This search will result in a dc(function) == 1

Last modified on 14 February, 2022
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® App for PCI Compliance: 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.2.0, 5.3.0


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