Creating a session state table
In this recipe, you will learn how to leverage lookups to maintain a state table that will capture the first time a session was seen and continually update the existing session's information accordingly. You can use this to determine if a session has gone stale and has been abandoned or if someone is trying to hijack an old session.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data In. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.
How to do it…
Follow the steps in this recipe to create a state table of sessions:
- Log in to your Splunk server.
- Select the Operational Intelligence application. ...
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