topic Re: Deployment App inputs.conf issues in Getting Data In

Deployment App inputs.conf issues

Norling80 — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:22:20 GMT

Hi.

We have an issue when we are trying to collect syslogdata from a filesystem on a syslog server with help from a deployment-app.

The folder structure looks like this, all data is being written to /var/log/netlogs/"IP-adress of the device"/messages.log

Example structure:
/var/log/netlogs/10.3.56.12/messages.log
/var/log/netlogs/10.3.56.13/messages.log
/var/log/netlogs/10.3.56.14/messages.log
/var/log/netlogs/10.3.56.15/messages.log

Here is the inputs.conf file we are using right now (we have experimented back and forward with crcSalt, initCrcLength)
[monitor:///var/log/netlogs/]
sourcetype = syslog
whitelist = .log$
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
crcSalt = <string>
initCrcLength = 6250
ignoreOlderThan = 10m
index = network

Any ides what we need to do in order to index every single messages.conf in this filestructure

Re: Deployment App inputs.conf issues

somesoni2 — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:08:00 GMT

How about just this

[monitor:///var/log/netlogs/*/messages.log]
sourcetype = syslog
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
crcSalt = <string>
initCrcLength = 6250
ignoreOlderThan = 10m
index = network

Re: Deployment App inputs.conf issues

Norling80 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 07:37:22 GMT

Thanks for the answer, unfortunately that did not do the trick, we have also checked the filesystem access rights and they are all good.

Re: Deployment App inputs.conf issues

samhughe — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:35:26 GMT

Have you looked at https://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Troubleshooting_Monitor_Inputs in particular https://your-splunk-server:8089/services/admin/inputstatus/TailingProcessor:FileStatus ? Can be quite helpful in seeing why files aren't being processed.

My guess would be "ignoreOlderThan = 10m" is the issue. This means that Splunk ignores any files that is older than 10minutes when it first sees the file (on startup) even if it is written to later on while Splunk is still running. The only way to get Splunk to process the files once it has 'tagged' them as old, is to restart Splunk.