https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59254#M11671 <P>It sounds like that could be simplified somehow. I've never heard of anything like a 1000 stanzas in a single inputs.conf. To me, 50 would be a rather large inputs.conf.</P> <P>What's your scenario?</P> <P>/k</P> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:57:25 GMT kristian_kolb 2012-09-13T16:57:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59252#M11669 <P>Is there a way to place comments in your inputs.conf file? My file will be over 1000 stanzas long so comments would be a nice way for someone else to understand it.</P> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:24:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59252#M11669 peter_gianusso 2012-09-13T16:24:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59253#M11670 <P>Use the hash or pound sign (#) before a comment.</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/inputsconf">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/inputsconf</A></P> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:28:52 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59253#M11670 mixolydian 2012-09-13T16:28:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59254#M11671 <P>It sounds like that could be simplified somehow. I've never heard of anything like a 1000 stanzas in a single inputs.conf. To me, 50 would be a rather large inputs.conf.</P> <P>What's your scenario?</P> <P>/k</P> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:57:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59254#M11671 kristian_kolb 2012-09-13T16:57:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59255#M11672 <P>We have hundreds of servers with 1000's of log files</P> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:03:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59255#M11672 peter_gianusso 2012-09-13T18:03:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59256#M11673 <P>Well - not saying that you don't need it. But usually you can make use of wildcards, recursing, whitelists/blacklists etc to make the number actual inputs.conf stanzas more manageable. Perhaps that is not possible in your case.</P> <P>/k</P> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:08:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Comments-in-inputs-conf/m-p/59256#M11673 kristian_kolb 2012-09-13T18:08:18Z