Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "You can either do it using the following icacls command or change it using the Windows GUI"

A block of code is set as follows:

SPL> index=main earliest=-1h latest=now | stats count(eval(if(http_status_code < "400", 1, NULL))) AS successful_requests count(eval(if(http_status_code >= "400", 1, NULL))) AS unsuccessful_requests by http_status_code

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

016-07-21 23:58:50:227303,96.32.0.0,GET,/destination/LAX/details,-,80, 
-,10.2.1.33,Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) 
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML; like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 
Safari/537.36,500,0,0,823,3053 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Windows: C:> dir C:\Splunk\etc\apps\SA-Eventgen
Linux:
ls -l /$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "On the Server controls page, click on the Restart Splunk button. Click on OK when asked to confirm the restart."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.