https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-Windows-Event-logs-through-command-line/m-p/286984#M54812 <P>Is it even possible to configure Windows Event Logs through command line? </P> <PRE><CODE>PS C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin&gt; .\splunk.exe add monitor WinEventLog://Security In handler 'monitor': Parameter name: Path does not exist. </CODE></PRE> <P>Also tried:</P> <P>C:\Windows\System32\Winevt\Logs\Security.evtx (but then I get charset problems) and I didn't find how to specify it when you add monitor (using command line only).</P> Sun, 10 Apr 2016 17:50:40 GMT dlogvinenko 2016-04-10T17:50:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-Windows-Event-logs-through-command-line/m-p/286984#M54812 <P>Is it even possible to configure Windows Event Logs through command line? </P> <PRE><CODE>PS C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin&gt; .\splunk.exe add monitor WinEventLog://Security In handler 'monitor': Parameter name: Path does not exist. </CODE></PRE> <P>Also tried:</P> <P>C:\Windows\System32\Winevt\Logs\Security.evtx (but then I get charset problems) and I didn't find how to specify it when you add monitor (using command line only).</P> Sun, 10 Apr 2016 17:50:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-Windows-Event-logs-through-command-line/m-p/286984#M54812 dlogvinenko 2016-04-10T17:50:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-Windows-Event-logs-through-command-line/m-p/286985#M54813 <P>Hi ,</P> <P>Please check the below documentation as how you can add the Event logs for monitoring using Splunk.</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/Data/MonitorWindowseventlogdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/Data/MonitorWindowseventlogdata</A></P> <P>The Command that you are using is to add normal log files for monitoring and not for event logs.</P> <P>Regards,<BR /> Badri</P> Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:22:17 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-Windows-Event-logs-through-command-line/m-p/286985#M54813 badrinath_itrs 2016-04-11T07:22:17Z