https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-send-logs-and-events-from-Linux-to-a-Windows-Splunk/m-p/103854#M21852 <P>I am new to Splunk and I installed the Windows version of Splunk. How do I send events and logs from Linux servers to this Splunk server on Windows 2012?</P> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:12:22 GMT pchukwuma 2013-01-29T22:12:22Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-send-logs-and-events-from-Linux-to-a-Windows-Splunk/m-p/103854#M21852 <P>I am new to Splunk and I installed the Windows version of Splunk. How do I send events and logs from Linux servers to this Splunk server on Windows 2012?</P> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:12:22 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-send-logs-and-events-from-Linux-to-a-Windows-Splunk/m-p/103854#M21852 pchukwuma 2013-01-29T22:12:22Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-send-logs-and-events-from-Linux-to-a-Windows-Splunk/m-p/103855#M21853 <P>Hi pchukwuma</P> <P>splunk to splunk traffic is OS independent and therefore splunk&gt; on Linux can forward to splunk&gt; on Windows without any problems, just set the output target on the linux box to be the windows box and you are done.<BR /> Take a look here <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.1/Deploy/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata">Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata</A> </P> <P>You can also sent any kind of network traffic directly to splunk&gt;, like UDP syslog.<BR /> Read more <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.1/Data/Monitornetworkports">here</A></P> <P>hope this helps to get you started and doing a lot of reading is anyway the best starting point.</P> <P>cheers,</P> <P>MuS</P> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:28:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-send-logs-and-events-from-Linux-to-a-Windows-Splunk/m-p/103855#M21853 MuS 2013-01-30T07:28:40Z