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If your SIEM solution includes a Trellix Enterprise Log Search (ELS), you can search uncompressed log data. ELS searches are faster than ELM searches.

  1. On the dashboard, click GUID-0177D71C-5A80-43D5-9629-5D396CF2895F-low.png and select ELS Search.

  2. In the search bar, enter the text you want to find, then click GUID-A1DCB349-9B72-45B7-B4AA-43D01595B786-low.png. You can use standard Boolean operators in the search.

    Operator/Modifier

    Description

    Characters

    Examples

    and

    Returns items that contain both terms.

    space

    and

    AND

    &

    john doe

    john and doe

    john AND doe

    john & Doe

    or

    Returns items that contain either term.

    or

    OR

    |

    john or doe

    john OR doe

    john | doe

    not

    Excludes terms from results. Must be used with AND.

    not

    NOT

    !

    john and not doe

    john and NOT doe

    john and !doe

    john and ! doe

    ""

    Returns items that contain a specific term. Quotation marks must be used in pairs and search terms cannot contain spaces.

    "

    "john"

    ()

    Nested search terms help narrow search results. Terms contained in parentheses are processed first.

    ()

    (john and doe) or smith

    (john) and (doe or smith)

    john (doe | smith)

    (john | jane)(doe | smith)

    *

    Wild cards return terms that contain, start with, or end with a specific term.

    *

    *abcd* - contains

    abcd* - starts with

    *abcd - ends with

    Note

    The system ignores the following words:but, be, with, such, then, for, no, with, not, are, and, their, if, this, on, into, a, or, there, in, that, they, was, is, it, an, the, as, at, these, by, to, of.

  3. Refine your search results.

    • Click Search Settings to set the result file expiration and the number of rows returned.

    • Click Search History to view and rerun previous searches.

    • Click GUID-9E27FAD7-66B6-444F-A303-6A2D91FAFBD1-low.png to refresh your search results.

    • Click the drop-down arrow, to filter your search results by time or days.

    • To narrow your search further, enter information in the search results and click GUID-A1DCB349-9B72-45B7-B4AA-43D01595B786-low.png.