WEM Distilled

Posted by Mitul Patel on February 11, 2013 Web Experience Management FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Web Experience Management

In the world of information technology the acronyms are a plenty and their translations are often debated and overloaded. So what is WEM you ask? Well, WEM is short for West Edmonton Mall located in the glorious province of Alberta Canada OR a line of vintage guitar amplifiers depending how you structured your Google search...I'm just kidding, don't leave just yet! Let's rewind. WEM, Web Experience Management, is an acronym used to describe the evolution of Web Content Management software into a realm that encompasses online interactions with visitors across multiple delivery channels...

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Passwords: Sharks Can Smell a Breach a Mile Away

Posted by Jon Reid on February 05, 2013 Best Practices, Cool Tools, Data Security Best Practices, Cool Tools, Security

2013 is not shaping up to be a banner year for Internet security. 2012 saw data breaches like 6.5 million LinkedIn password hashes leaked, 420,000 member accounts from social network Formspring, Yahoo! Voices more than 400,000 usernames and passwords, 1.5 million passwords from the online dating site eHarmony. Twitter is the latest system to suffer an embarrassing security breach with accompanying data loss. Approximately 250,000 accounts holders have had their usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords stolen. Twitter has been as proactive as...

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Getting a Pulse on Your System: How to Build a System Health Indicator in Splunk

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on February 01, 2013 Operational Intelligence, Development Dashboards, query, search

Welcome Splunkers!  I hope everyone is having a great New Year.  We certainly are, here at Function1.  We just publicly released a beta version of our Splunk for Oracle WebLogic Server app to Splunkbase  as mentioned in a recent post.  As part of the Splunk products team at Function1, I'm always looking at new ideas and approaches in Splunk app development.  As Splunk apps become more robust, they will...

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WebLogic + Splunk = Splunk for Oracle WebLogic Server

Posted by Sandeep Khaneja on January 29, 2013 Operational Intelligence, Cool Tools Oracle WebLogic Server, Splunk

As many of you know, from our website and blogs, we Function1-ers provide world-class consulting services for a few Oracle enterprise products as well as Splunk. Having this unique blend of experience on the Function1 team, we often try to experiment with new ideas that would be helpful to both sets of clients. One such experiment has yielded our new 1.0 Beta release of the Splunk for Oracle WebLogic Server app....

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OH NO!! Splunking log files with multiple formats?? No problem!

Posted by Rupak Pandya on January 24, 2013 Operational Intelligence, Best Practices Big data, Data Inputs, Machine data

I was recently at a client site  for a two-week engagement assisting them with ramping up their Splunk installation, and I came across something particularly interesting. One of the log files the client wanted to index in Splunk contained four different log formats with four different timestamps. Take a look at a sample of the log:

There is actually a fairly simple way to solve...

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