https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-setup-data-inputs-configuration-for-universal-forwarder/m-p/196703#M39129 <P>Hi @kpavan</P> <P>Yup, you have to configure your indexer to receive data from your universal forwarder. Check out this documentation on enabling your receiver/indexer:<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/Forwarding/Enableareceiver">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/Forwarding/Enableareceiver</A></P> Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:18:09 GMT ppablo 2014-08-27T19:18:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-setup-data-inputs-configuration-for-universal-forwarder/m-p/196702#M39128 <P>Hi All,</P> <P>I have installed splunkforwarder-6.0.3 on windows server and configured .conf as below. Please let me know if am missing anything.</P> <H2>inputs.conf</H2> <P>[monitor:://C:\Program Files (x86)\Hitachi ID\Telephone Password Manager\Logs\TEST-PSYNCH\idmsuite.log]<BR /> disabled = 0 <BR /> sourcetype = my_sourcetype<BR /> host = my_hostname</P> <H2>outputs.conf</H2> <P>[tcpout]<BR /> autoLB = true<BR /> compressed = false<BR /> defaultGroup = wdc<BR /> [tcpout:wdc]<BR /> server = servername.com:9997,servername.com:9997<BR /> useACK=true</P> <P>This is first time i have installed splunk. Do i need to configure anything from indexer side?</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:25:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-setup-data-inputs-configuration-for-universal-forwarder/m-p/196702#M39128 kpavan 2020-09-28T17:25:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-setup-data-inputs-configuration-for-universal-forwarder/m-p/196703#M39129 <P>Hi @kpavan</P> <P>Yup, you have to configure your indexer to receive data from your universal forwarder. Check out this documentation on enabling your receiver/indexer:<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/Forwarding/Enableareceiver">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/Forwarding/Enableareceiver</A></P> Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:18:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-setup-data-inputs-configuration-for-universal-forwarder/m-p/196703#M39129 ppablo 2014-08-27T19:18:09Z