How to fix my universal forwarder configurations so that Splunk only forwards...
I am trying to forward to a third-party system from a Universal forwarder. I have tried two approaches. In both cases I am receiving a lot of unnecessary data on the third-party end. It looks like...
View ArticleAutomation using Splunk
I have a server which stores some logs. Everyday news logs are added. So what I want is, every week, on a particular day, (say Friday @ 12 AM), a script will be triggered which will forward these logs...
View ArticleUniversal forwarder parsin
Hello guys i am new at splunk and i am using splunk cloud trial I have a log file like this, and my event so. 2017-07-31_15:46:26.625 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2017-07-31_15:46:26.813...
View ArticleSplunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows: Which components should I deploy the...
We have a distributed Splunk environment. We are using a universal forwarder to get logs from a Windows server. Deployment server is being used to deploy apps to different components. To which...
View ArticleData not showing up on Search Head - Distributed environment
We have distributed splunk environment. I am using Splunk_TA_windows on universal forwarders to send security event logs to Heavy forwarder and then to indexer. I can see that data is being sent to...
View ArticleWhy are my logs sent to the default index?
Greetings all, I am new to Splunk and trying to know my way around it. I created a home lab environment with the following details: * 1 search head, 1 indexer, and 1 Heavy forwarder ( All Linux). * 1...
View ArticleHow to forward logs with Splunk Universal Forwarder for the files with no...
I have a Splunk Forwarder setup already on my host. I have certain files on folder (/tom/mike/). File names are starting with Back*. The content of file may in one or multiple line. There are multiple...
View ArticleIn the search, the host for my pfSense is always the IP address and not the...
I searched now for a long time but could not find an answer. I have the following setup: - pfSense firewall with remote logging enabled - RPi with Universal Forwarder installed - Splunk in the cloud. -...
View ArticleOn a Linux host, is a Splunk user account needed if you are running forwarder...
Hello, On a Linux host, in which we are installing universal forwarder (using rpm installer), if we install and plan to run as root, is there any actual need for the Splunk account that gets created...
View ArticleWe have installed a Universal forwarder on one of our servers, Can we add...
We have a server where we have universal forwarder, and I am planning to install a splunk enterprise version so that i can use it as a deployment server. Can I do this? If so what are the things I have...
View ArticleSplunk not getting forwarder data though ports seem to be open
I am trying to set up a Splunk universal fowarder on a VyOS router going to a Splunk Enterprise instance I have on a Windows 2008 box. The Splunk instance is also connected to a domain that it uses for...
View ArticleWhy is my EVAL configuration in props.conf on the Search Head not processing?
I'm working with data that is being sent from a universal forwarder (UF) on the server. I do an INDEXED_EXTRACTION in the props.conf on the universal forwarder. When I search for the data on the search...
View ArticleRecursively monitor files in current directory and subdirectories upto a...
Is it possible to recursively monitor the files in a directory tree but only till a specified maxDepth? Example: I have a stanza in inputs.conf which says [monitor://A/B/] I want to monitor directories...
View ArticleWhich version of Splunk is suitable for Oracle Linux?
I'm having one system with Oracle Linux branches-6/el6-u8, and I would like to setup Splunk Universal Forwarder on it. Can anyone help with identifying correct installation of Splunk for this OS. If...
View ArticleSCCM Package for deploying Splunk Universal Forwarder
The question is how do we install Splunk through SCCM and is there any prebuilt packages?
View ArticleCan a Splunk forwarder send data to Apache Kafka and then to our Splunk...
Hi Due to architecture reasons I need to use Apache Kafka as a message broker between Splunk Forwarders and Splunk cluster. So, the data flow would be something like: Splunk Forwarder ----(SSL)--->...
View ArticleHow to forward data from a syslog collection server to a third party server?
Hey everyone, I currently have several devices forwarding syslog data to a syslog server. All of the devices data gets written to a directory called /syslog on the syslog server (there is a separate...
View ArticleWhy am I getting this error in splunkd.log? "Error executing modular input :...
I've installed the "Monitoring of Java Virtual Machines with JMX" app on my universal forwarder box (Fedora 26, OpenJDK 1.8, Python 2.7). I'm getting a "connection timed out" error that I can't figure...
View ArticleWhat's the next step to setup my universal forwarder on a syslog server?
Hello, I am trying to bring a client's syslog data into Splunk using a universal forwarder (UF) on a syslog server. I am getting Splunk internal logs, and I am getting Linux logs off the box. The...
View ArticleCan I configure universal forwarder to listen to a TCP port?
I have a network appliance publishing log to a remote server which has universal forwarder installed... Is it possible to configure the universal forwarder to listen to the port (TCP) and forward it to...
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