Using event types and tags to create an accelerated datamodel search

Posted by Krishan Patel on July 14, 2015 Operational Intelligence Splunk tags eventtypes datamodels Windows

Accelerated data models have made performing searches over large periods of time and/or large amounts of data extremely fast. This blog will go through an easy, cut through, step by step procedure on how to create a custom search while leveraging the CIM data model.

 

Example Use Case: Monitor all Windows user/computer account creation.

 

Step 1: Make sure Windows data is coming into Splunk according to best practices. This means the data should be properly indexed, sourcetyped, etc.

 

Step 2: Search splunkbase for any existing Windows TAs. For...

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CIO Review Names Function1 to 20 Most Promising Red Hat Solution Providers 2015

Posted by Caroline Givnish on July 07, 2015 Function1, Operational Intelligence function1, Red Hat, CIO Review
Function1, global leader in Operational Intelligence, Web Experience Management, and Data Security solutions, has been selected by CIO Review as one of the 20 Most Promising Red Hat Solution Providers in 2015.
 
A distinguished panel of CIOs, CEOs, VCs and members of CIO Review’s editorial board are responsible for identifying this annual list of companies, which aims to highlight and promote technology entrepreneurship. The decision highlights Function1's 2 year...
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Splunk Alerts in Slack!

Posted by Rupak Pandya on June 30, 2015 Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence Splunk 6.2, Cool Tools, Slack
Here at Function1 we use Slack in order to stay in constant contact with our co-workers. If you haven't heard of Slack before, Slack is a team chat and communication tool. We use it to talk about our projects, company announcements, sports, random water cooler talk, technical questions, etc. Slack has integration built-in with a lot of services. We rely heavily on the GitHub, Asana, and Twitter integrations, but they have many others.
 
Since we do a lot of Splunk development for our own projects and our clients, we thought, "...
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Why Project Onboarding is Important

Posted by Sarika Singh on June 18, 2015 Best Practices project management, initiation

One of the most crucial times in a project lifecycle is during the Initiation stage - this is the time in between a project when the company has just won the project and when they are ready to start.

 

There have been times I’ve taken over as project manager without a proper onboarding and suddenly it’s a “sink or swim” kind of moment and I’ve had to find a way to stay afloat. So while this step in the process is often overlooked, if done...

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How to create a modal window in WebCenter Sites Contributor UI (11.1.1.8)

Posted by Jesty Thomas on June 16, 2015 Web Experience Management Web Experience Management, WebCenter Sites, contributor UI

If you have been working on WCS for a while, you have probably run into situations where you need to customize the contributor UI. WCS has provided some hooks for this, but often the documentation is too basic and requires more research and reverse engineering.

In an effort to shed some light into UI customization, at Function1 we have authored a series of UI customization blogs: How to build custom attribute editors in WebCenter Sites 11.1.1.8,...

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