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Possibility to filter users client side #40

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It would be great to have the ability to filter client side which messages to 
send and which to ignore.
I´d really hope to ignore specific events with regexed tags on client side 
already. 
Like:
Ignoring all users with '%$' that come from events 4624, 4634, 538, 540.

I´m looking at horrendous network traffic and SQL operations right now - all 
for events that are essentially of no value to anyone.

regards

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kleindl....@gmail.com on 19 May 2011 at 9:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Perhaps I misunderstand what you are trying to filter. Are you wanting to just 
filter on those IDs, or do you want to also filter on some criteria within 
those IDs?

Original comment by sherwin....@gmail.com on 20 May 2011 at 2:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
On some criteria actually.
Say, I have a server that does Antivirus and produces ~6 million service logins 
(with users like WS0000$) over the day.
My only option with evtsys is to 
* send them, which does generate heaploads of traffic
* Squeeze them into the DB, since I wouldn't want to apply a general filter 
that early
* Remove them with a simple cron later on(DELETE FROM SYSTEMEVENTS WHERE 
EVENTUSER LIKE '%$' AND EVENTID IN (<list of eventids id like to remvoe from>);

Instead I'd rather apply a regex filter on the client side and save a heapload 
of traffic, central logging host operations, mysql time and crons :)

Original comment by kleindl....@gmail.com on 20 May 2011 at 9:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
And just to add, I need to send them because they frankly use the same EventIDs 
as other logons(4624 and 4634) :/

Original comment by kleindl....@gmail.com on 20 May 2011 at 9:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I know this was posted quite some time ago, but thought I would update it. This 
won't be possible in any short period of time because adding filtering or regex 
capability would require some extended research and testing. If someone would 
like to put in the effort and submit a patch I would be happy to include it.

-Sherwin

Original comment by sherwin....@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 3:43