Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The field values are displayed in a table using the table command."

A block of code is set as follows:

<table>
 <searchString>
  index=opintel status=404 | stats count by src_ip
 </searchString>
 <title>Report – 404 Errors by Source IP</title>

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

<table>
 <searchString>
  index=opintel status=404 | stats count by src_ip
 </searchString>
 <title>Report – 404 Errors by Source IP</title>

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

./splunk add monitor /var/log/messages –sourcetype linux_messages

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Quickly create a report by navigating to Save As | Report above the search bar."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.