topic Re: Monitoring Folders in Getting Data In

Monitoring Folders

sondradotcom — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:10:22 GMT

Splunk is monitoring several folders, but upon careful inspection I've noticed that it seems to be "skipping" files here and there. What's the easiest way to "make" Splunk go back and read in those files?

Thanks, -S.

Re: Monitoring Folders

vaijpc — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:26:47 GMT

The second half of this page might be useful in understanding how Splunk decides whether a file is new/updated. Might not help, just throwing it out there...

Re: Monitoring Folders

sondradotcom — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:04:15 GMT

Ah! Helpful. So, if I salt the CRC with, say, , will it go back and re-index everything, including the files that are already indexed perfectly well?

-S.

Re: Monitoring Folders

vaijpc — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:25:19 GMT

That sounds like it might work... never tried it myself though so only one way to find out!