https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Windows-Event-collection-A-really-basic-question-Doh/m-p/190737#M37977 <P>Guys, I want to use Splunk for some eval work on Windows 7 prof and server 2008 and 2012. I want to stick strictly to Universal Forwarders and not WMI. Am i reading this document link correctly below?</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorwindowsdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorwindowsdata</A></P> <P>The words "Splunk Enterprise must run on Windows" says to me I have no option other than a Windows install of Splunk Enterprise and therefore my currently built Splunk Enterprise Red Hat server install is not fit for this purpose?</P> <P>The documentation is good but pulling these simple strings together is not easy. Can anyone point me to a document that will answer these questions please?</P> Tue, 19 May 2015 10:44:31 GMT kevbod 2015-05-19T10:44:31Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Windows-Event-collection-A-really-basic-question-Doh/m-p/190737#M37977 <P>Guys, I want to use Splunk for some eval work on Windows 7 prof and server 2008 and 2012. I want to stick strictly to Universal Forwarders and not WMI. Am i reading this document link correctly below?</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorwindowsdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorwindowsdata</A></P> <P>The words "Splunk Enterprise must run on Windows" says to me I have no option other than a Windows install of Splunk Enterprise and therefore my currently built Splunk Enterprise Red Hat server install is not fit for this purpose?</P> <P>The documentation is good but pulling these simple strings together is not easy. Can anyone point me to a document that will answer these questions please?</P> Tue, 19 May 2015 10:44:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Windows-Event-collection-A-really-basic-question-Doh/m-p/190737#M37977 kevbod 2015-05-19T10:44:31Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Windows-Event-collection-A-really-basic-question-Doh/m-p/190738#M37978 <P>Nah - you are fine. Put the appropriate UFs on your Windows devices and have the data sent back to your Red Hat indexer(s). I get why the document looks confusing but haven't had any caffeine yet so can't concisely reword it. </P> Tue, 19 May 2015 10:56:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Windows-Event-collection-A-really-basic-question-Doh/m-p/190738#M37978 Runals 2015-05-19T10:56:35Z