https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WinEventLog-security-re-indexing-after-SplunkForwarder-service/m-p/127659#M26240 <P>Hello.</P> <P>Again the question from me.=)</P> <P>Noticed such a feature, if restart SplunkForwarder service, security event log is uploaded to the server again entirely...</P> <P>-inputs.conf<BR /> <CODE><BR /> [WinEventLog://Security]<BR /> disabled = false<BR /> index = security<BR /> </CODE></P> <P>If so, then tell me which the parametr i must add? <BR /> had ideas about <EM>checkpointInterval</EM> but do not quite understand how it works.</P> <P>Thx</P> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:38:27 GMT templier 2014-01-28T09:38:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WinEventLog-security-re-indexing-after-SplunkForwarder-service/m-p/127659#M26240 <P>Hello.</P> <P>Again the question from me.=)</P> <P>Noticed such a feature, if restart SplunkForwarder service, security event log is uploaded to the server again entirely...</P> <P>-inputs.conf<BR /> <CODE><BR /> [WinEventLog://Security]<BR /> disabled = false<BR /> index = security<BR /> </CODE></P> <P>If so, then tell me which the parametr i must add? <BR /> had ideas about <EM>checkpointInterval</EM> but do not quite understand how it works.</P> <P>Thx</P> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:38:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WinEventLog-security-re-indexing-after-SplunkForwarder-service/m-p/127659#M26240 templier 2014-01-28T09:38:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WinEventLog-security-re-indexing-after-SplunkForwarder-service/m-p/127660#M26241 <P>No changes required!</P> <P>By default Splunk uses the fishbucket to track where it got to while reading files, in the case of winventlog the script handles the checkpoint so it records where it left off when the forwarder was stopped.</P> <P>When the forwarder starts up it will resume the reading of the wineventlog from the last location it read...</P> <P>If your saying a universal forwarder restart triggers the entire security event viewer to be re-indexed then that sounds like a bug/problem in the universal forwarder on your server...</P> Thu, 04 May 2017 23:39:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WinEventLog-security-re-indexing-after-SplunkForwarder-service/m-p/127660#M26241 gjanders 2017-05-04T23:39:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WinEventLog-security-re-indexing-after-SplunkForwarder-service/m-p/127661#M26242 <P>Sorry for late answer. <BR /> Yes, it's a forwarder bug. After update all work fine</P> Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:54:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WinEventLog-security-re-indexing-after-SplunkForwarder-service/m-p/127661#M26242 templier 2017-09-27T13:54:50Z