Splunk Power User Bootcamp at .conf2014 decides to assign colors to event types in standard web-based GUI; used users, events & ‘risklevel’ & assigned colors.
The Cluster command with Nagios data - an industrial monitoring tool for IT infrastructures - can gather history & diagnostics on issues in the organization.
Splunk 6.1 includes support for native MaxMind DB-.mmdb-updatable when needed. Under limits.conf file change path to mmdb file & it’s safe for Splunk upgrades.