https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-splunk-running-on-unix-index-windows-machines/m-p/44554#M8350 <P>I recently set up a linux server to collect my firewall log. I then setup splunk to index the log. It seems that I cannot index the windows machine from the splunk instance running on my linux server. </P> <P>Is it necessary to forward from the linux splunk to the windows splunk?</P> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:08:03 GMT connorsvilardo 2011-02-15T07:08:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-splunk-running-on-unix-index-windows-machines/m-p/44554#M8350 <P>I recently set up a linux server to collect my firewall log. I then setup splunk to index the log. It seems that I cannot index the windows machine from the splunk instance running on my linux server. </P> <P>Is it necessary to forward from the linux splunk to the windows splunk?</P> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:08:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-splunk-running-on-unix-index-windows-machines/m-p/44554#M8350 connorsvilardo 2011-02-15T07:08:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-splunk-running-on-unix-index-windows-machines/m-p/44555#M8351 <P>A Splunk indexer on any platform can index Windows logs. Your best bet is to install a Lightweight Forwarder on the Windows host to forward logs to your Linux-based indexer. You might want to install and configure the Windows app on the Windows forwarder, as well as the Linux indexer, to leverage the canned dashboards/reports.</P> <P>You could also forward the Linux logs to a Windows indexer, or if you have two indexers installed, configure them for distributed search.</P> <P>Here is a reference to the reverse -- using Windows to collect *NIX data: <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/questions/11579/splunk-for-nix" rel="nofollow">http://answers.splunk.com/questions/11579/splunk-for-nix</A></P> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:34:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-splunk-running-on-unix-index-windows-machines/m-p/44555#M8351 Ron_Naken 2011-02-15T07:34:51Z