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Can you create a batch input processing using the admin interface?

tomhowe — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:25:01 GMT

The documentation for input directories shows how to create a batch input processor using config. Is there a way to do it using the admin interface?

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.1.6/Admin/Monitorfilesanddirectories

Colleague who has unix password is on holiday! I only have access to admin interface.

Re: Can you create a batch input processing using the admin interface?

gkanapathy — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:50:57 GMT

The "Upload a local file" option I believe uploads a file and places into the batch directory for indexing. There's rarely a need (and even more rarely an emergency need) to create an entire new batch input directory. Usually you're just trying to add a file to an existing one. Is that your case?

Re: Can you create a batch input processing using the admin interface?

tomhowe — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:52:04 GMT

We want to set up a new input feed from JMS. I have built a JMS->Camel(File) adaptor that spits out all messages to files in a directory. Unfortunately, at the moment we cant write the files into the $SPLUNKHOME/var/spool/splunk directory because we dont have access to the unix account. So I'm trying to set up a directory elsewhere that splunk can read these files from.

We may also want to have different files being collected for different indexes, so it makes sense to separate them in different directories.

Also, ideally we would prefer to configure this without needing unix account access.