https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-index-WMI-from-a-Splunk-instance-running-on-Linux/m-p/33258#M5939 <P>I have many windows systems I want to grab WMI data from. I have Splunk installed on Linux and want to do WMI polling. Is it possible to perform the WMI polling from a instance of Splunk running on Linux?</P> Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:15:41 GMT Simeon 2011-06-22T22:15:41Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-index-WMI-from-a-Splunk-instance-running-on-Linux/m-p/33258#M5939 <P>I have many windows systems I want to grab WMI data from. I have Splunk installed on Linux and want to do WMI polling. Is it possible to perform the WMI polling from a instance of Splunk running on Linux?</P> Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:15:41 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-index-WMI-from-a-Splunk-instance-running-on-Linux/m-p/33258#M5939 Simeon 2011-06-22T22:15:41Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-index-WMI-from-a-Splunk-instance-running-on-Linux/m-p/33259#M5940 <P>No it is not. Splunk uses Windows systems calls to collect via WMI. </P> <P>However, if you have a Splunk Linux indexer, you can still collect WMI data by installing a Splunk Universal Forwarder or Splunk Light Forwarder or Splunk Forwarder on Windows, configuring it to collect WMI data, and forwarding back to the Splunk Linux indexer.</P> Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:07:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-index-WMI-from-a-Splunk-instance-running-on-Linux/m-p/33259#M5940 gkanapathy 2011-06-22T23:07:30Z