Adding compliance data to syslog data in stream

​When routing data from Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S), you may need to add fields for compliance. For example, you may need tag data that come from the PCI zone. SC4S can attach indexed fields to matching events as they are processed. This is achieved by editing the configuration files that work in unison to identify and enrich the events:

• compliance_meta_by_source.csv, located in /opt/sc4s/local/context, and contains a “key” that is referenced in the log path for each data source 
• compliance_meta_by_source.conf, located in /opt/sc4s/local/context, and contains the filter to match events

The example edits below creates a filter called "f_pcidata" that matches to the 192.168.2.0/24 subnet and adds the fields "compliance", "datacentre", and "country" to every event that matches.

compliance_meta_by_source.csv

f_pcidata,fields.compliance,"pci"
f_pcidata,fields.datacenter,"DC1"
f_pcidata,fields.country,"New Zealand"

compliance_meta_by_source.conf

filter f_pcidata {
   netmask(192.168.12.0/24)
};