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How do I edit my inputs.conf to blacklist Windows event logs with Eventcode 7036 on my Splunk 6.1.3 universal forwarder?

chrisbaker — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:16:22 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to use blacklist on the Universal Forwarder to prevent unwanted events from being sent and indexed. Splunk instance and UF are both version 6.1.3
On the machine with UF, I went to C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\system\local
The inputs.conf file looks like this:

 [default]
 host = Win7HP8440p

 [script://$SPLUNK_HOME\bin\scripts\splunk-wmi.path]

So I added a stanza as shown in many models and now it looks like this:

 [default]
 host = Win7HP8440p

 [WinEventLog://System]
 disabled = false
 blacklist1 = 7036

 [script://$SPLUNK_HOME\bin\scripts\splunk-wmi.path]

I rebooted the host with the UF and then checked on the Splunk instance and Event code 7036 keeps coming through.
I have tried many variations to match the examples I have seen ( like disabled = 0 or removing spaces around = signs etc.) but so far nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions?

Re: How do I edit my inputs.conf to blacklist Windows event logs with Eventcode 7036 on my Splunk 6.1.3 universal forwarder?

satishsdange — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:56:42 GMT

Any reason to add 1 to blacklist? It could be simply "blacklist = 7036"

Re: How do I edit my inputs.conf to blacklist Windows event logs with Eventcode 7036 on my Splunk 6.1.3 universal forwarder?

juvetm — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:09:35 GMT

hi
are you using the advanced filtering format

Re: How do I edit my inputs.conf to blacklist Windows event logs with Eventcode 7036 on my Splunk 6.1.3 universal forwarder?

chrisbaker — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:35:30 GMT

How do I check for that? I don't see anything in the docs.

Re: How do I edit my inputs.conf to blacklist Windows event logs with Eventcode 7036 on my Splunk 6.1.3 universal forwarder?

chrisbaker — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:37:05 GMT

I've tried with and without the 1. I saw it as "blacklist1" in some examples.