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[8.6] Document the behavior of IM rules and multi-value indicator doc…
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…uments (backport #4326) (#4401)

Co-authored-by: Nastasha Solomon <[email protected]>
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mergify[bot] and nastasha-solomon authored Dec 6, 2023
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NOTE: {elastic-sec} provides limited support for indicator match rules. See <<support-indicator-rules>> for more information.

. To create a rule that searches for events whose specified field value matches the specified indicator field value in the indicator index patterns, select *Indicator Match*, then fill in the following fields:

.. *Source*: The individual index patterns or data view that specifies what data to search.
.. *Custom query*: The query and filters used to retrieve the required results from
the {elastic-sec} event indices. For example, if you want to match documents that only contain a `destination.ip` address field, add `destination.ip : *`.
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.. *Indicator index query*: The query and filters used to filter the fields from
the indicator index patterns. The default query `@timestamp > "now-30d/d"` searches specified indicator indices for indicators ingested during the past 30 days and rounds the start time down to the nearest day (resolves to UTC `00:00:00`).
.. *Indicator mapping*: Compares the values of the specified event and indicator field
values. When the field values are identical, an alert is generated. To define
.. *Indicator mapping*: Compares the values of the specified event and indicator fields, and generates an alert if the values are identical.
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NOTE: Only single-value fields are supported.
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To define
which field values are compared from the indices add the following:

** *Field*: The field used for comparing values in the {elastic-sec} event
indices.
** *Indicator index field*: The field used for comparing values in the indicator
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