https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Monitor-windows-file-using-environment-variable-in-the-path/m-p/227998#M44432 <P>List both styles? Splunk will ignore inputs that have paths that don't exist.</P> <PRE><CODE>[monitor://C:\windows\Temp\logs.txt] foo = bar [monitor://E:\windows\Temp\logs.txt] foo = bar </CODE></PRE> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:22:10 GMT twinspop 2016-10-03T14:22:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Monitor-windows-file-using-environment-variable-in-the-path/m-p/227997#M44431 <P>Hi All,</P> <P>Can we specify environment variables of windows in the monitor stanza. For example like below:</P> <P>[monitor://%systemdrive%\windows\Temp\logs.txt]</P> <P>We have logs.txt in Temp directory and we have different system drives, one server is with C:\ &amp; the other server is with E:.</P> <P>Can we monitor like above ??</P> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:18:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Monitor-windows-file-using-environment-variable-in-the-path/m-p/227997#M44431 bharathkumarnec 2016-10-03T14:18:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Monitor-windows-file-using-environment-variable-in-the-path/m-p/227998#M44432 <P>List both styles? Splunk will ignore inputs that have paths that don't exist.</P> <PRE><CODE>[monitor://C:\windows\Temp\logs.txt] foo = bar [monitor://E:\windows\Temp\logs.txt] foo = bar </CODE></PRE> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:22:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Monitor-windows-file-using-environment-variable-in-the-path/m-p/227998#M44432 twinspop 2016-10-03T14:22:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Monitor-windows-file-using-environment-variable-in-the-path/m-p/227999#M44433 <P>Yeah True! But just wanted to check if that way is possible in the Monitor stanza. Just to reduce number of stanzas in inputs.conf file.</P> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:25:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Monitor-windows-file-using-environment-variable-in-the-path/m-p/227999#M44433 bharathkumarnec 2016-10-03T14:25:09Z