topic Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept? in Getting Data In

Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

_z_ — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:03:31 GMT

Not new to Splunk, but new to 4.2.2.
I had setup a forwarder and manually entered specific paths to monitor:

/p01/foo/bar/logs/server.log
/p02/foo/bar/logs/server.log
went to on to p50.

I just wanted to get Splunk 'working'.
I looked in the local/inputs.conf but the information was not there. So where is it kept?

I have to ask because I removed the above, edited ../local/inputs.conf and added:

[monitor:/p*/foo/bar/logs]
index = default
ignoreOlderThan = 3d

As I wanted to index all the logs within the 'logs' dir.

Now it appears the forwarder is not sending OR the indexer is no longer indexing. I am guessing the original configuration is kept someplace and messing up my ../local/inputs.conf

Any ideas?

Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

MuS — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:52:13 GMT

Hi z

how did you entered the paths to monitor? if it was over the 'webUI / Manager' it will propably end up in etc/apps/search/local.

and keep reading

Configure your inputs

regards

Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

kristian_kolb — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:12:38 GMT

Hm, and the monitor command takes a few more slashes (assuming that this is your actual conf)

Suggest you try

[monitor://]

and remember that the path might start with an additional slash...

Hope this helps.

/Kristian

Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

_z_ — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:38:16 GMT

Yes, the original inputs were via the webUI/Manager...

I will check out the path, thanks!

Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

_z_ — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:41:52 GMT

Kristian,

Yep, I tried the '///' in front as well.. no joy.

Thanks!

Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

_z_ — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:45:33 GMT

MuS,
I checked the path... the inputs.conf there is empty, which is correct since I removed all the entries I made.

I had reviewed that document you provided before... maybe I have to re-re-read...

Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

_z_ — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:45:16 GMT

MuS, just wanted to followup. I have another forwarder which I also setup manually via the Manager UI ... The etc/app/search/local dir does not exist...

So still looking for where these are kept.

Re: Manual Inputs, what location are they kept?

_z_ — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:59:27 GMT

$ find . -name inputs.conf -print
./splunk/etc/system/default/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/system/local/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/apps/launcher/local/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/apps/SplunkLightForwarder/default/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/apps/SplunkDeploymentMonitor/local/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/apps/sample_app/default/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/apps/unix/default/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/apps/unix/local/inputs.conf
./splunk/etc/modules/distributedDeployment/classes/deployable/inputs.conf

The file I was looking for is in ../launcher/local/inputs.conf

I still have an issue with the indexing not working, but since this was my original question, I will mark it answered.