Amanda is tasked with hiding the first 5 digits of the account number in the...

The correct props.conf setting is:

[source::.../vendor_sales.log]

SEDCMD-acct = s/AcctID=\d{5}(\d{5})/AcctID=xxxxx\1/g

SEDCMD is the correct props.conf attribute for performing sed-style substitutions against raw event data during indexing. The regular expression matches AcctID= followed by the first five digits, captures the last five digits, and replaces the first five digits with xxxxx.

Example:

AcctID=4902636940

becomes:

AcctID=xxxxx36940

Why the other options are incorrect:

A. TRANSFORMS-acct is used to call a transform stanza from transforms.conf, not to directly run a sed substitution.

B. REPLACE-acct is not the valid props.conf setting for this task.

D. SED-acct is not the valid Splunk setting; the correct setting name is SEDCMD- < class > .