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Does the Universal Forwarder have a Web Interface

fastdevops — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:34:45 GMT

Does the universal forwarder have a web interface? I just installed it on an Ubuntu server and was trying to decipher the CLI usage and figured there must be a quicker (less painful) way to configure. All I want to do as a first test is a) add a directory to forward log files to b) send them to my sandbox I just fired up.

Re: Does the Universal Forwarder have a Web Interface

yannK — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:41:39 GMT

No it does not.
see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/Forwarding/Introducingtheuniversalforwarder

use the CLI or apps with configuration files.

Re: Does the Universal Forwarder have a Web Interface

fastdevops — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:42:24 GMT

Well bummer.

Re: Does the Universal Forwarder have a Web Interface

martin_mueller — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:52:17 GMT

You can install a full Splunk instance, enable forwarding, and add your inputs through the UI... effectively making it a heavy forwarder.