topic Re: How to upload and use a directory of binary files in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-upload-and-use-a-directory-of-binary-files/m-p/395976#M70602 <P>I no longer need to use those binary files, so I'm accepting the below answer to close the question.</P> Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:09:49 GMT splunklearner12 2019-06-03T14:09:49Z How to upload and use a directory of binary files https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-upload-and-use-a-directory-of-binary-files/m-p/395974#M70600 <P>Network traces are stored in hundreds of binary files in a directory. </P> <P>How do I upload those files (they won't get updated)? <BR /> In the Splunk settings, I saw how to upload a single script- but not a full directory. <BR /> I'm using a single instance.</P> Fri, 31 May 2019 14:04:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-upload-and-use-a-directory-of-binary-files/m-p/395974#M70600 splunklearner12 2019-05-31T14:04:18Z Re: How to upload and use a directory of binary files https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-upload-and-use-a-directory-of-binary-files/m-p/395975#M70601 <P>Splunk supports ingesting ASCII / human-readable data. You could technically ingest the files, but it really wouldn't be anything understandable. If there is a way to convert the binary to ASCII, then you could use a scripted input to run a script against the binaries. The script could dump the ASCII output to a directory which you could then monitor.</P> <P>As for monitoring a whole directory, take a look at the docs here: <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.6/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectorieswithinputs.conf">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.6/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectorieswithinputs.conf</A></P> Fri, 31 May 2019 14:25:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-upload-and-use-a-directory-of-binary-files/m-p/395975#M70601 kmorris_splunk 2019-05-31T14:25:00Z Re: How to upload and use a directory of binary files https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-upload-and-use-a-directory-of-binary-files/m-p/395976#M70602 <P>I no longer need to use those binary files, so I'm accepting the below answer to close the question.</P> Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:09:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-upload-and-use-a-directory-of-binary-files/m-p/395976#M70602 splunklearner12 2019-06-03T14:09:49Z