topic Re: Is There a Forwarder for AS400? in All Apps and Add-ons

Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

_gkollias — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:02:26 GMT

Right now, I'm manually creating reports in Excel for AS400 data buy the hour. I'm looking for a way to automate this data, and, preferably, am looking to use Splunk.

I see that there is an app, but if there is no Forwarder for AS400 there will be a gap with getting the data in automatically.

Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

Thanks In Advance!

Re: Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

_gkollias — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:11:16 GMT

Also, if someone has another solution, I'm open for ideas

Re: Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

kristian_kolb — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:15:03 GMT

No, there is no forwarder for AS400.

Perhaps it's possible for you to export the log files by some means (scp, ftp, sftp, syslog, mounting a share and writing logs there). That way you can have a forwarder monitoring the location where the files get written, and send it to Splunk.

Re: Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

ShaneNewman — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:01:44 GMT

We do what @kristian.kolb said. The data we needed from the AS400 is log based, we just setup a script to forward the data from the AS400 to a port that we listen to on a heavy forwarder.

Re: Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

_gkollias — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 01:03:56 GMT

Great. Thank you both for the info!

Re: Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

_gkollias — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:24:45 GMT

Is it a python script you use to forward the data?

Re: Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

ShaneNewman — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:42:50 GMT

http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/Dynamically-transfer-files-via-FTP

This is the script we started with.