topic Re: Different IIS hosts logging to different indexes in Getting Data In

Different IIS hosts logging to different indexes

erikwie — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:07:26 GMT

We got several IIS servers and want to index IIS logs into Splunk. However, we need to seperate some of the servers to a seperate indexer due to different needs for Access controll and retention.

Is there a way to get IIS logs from some servers to one index and logs from anorther server to another index?

Using universal forwarders. running Splunk 7.2.6 , Windows 2012RS, single instance.

Re: Different IIS hosts logging to different indexes

gcusello — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:18:45 GMT

HI @erikwie,
You have to override index value for some events on Indexers not on Universal Forwarders.

Following the infos at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/8.0.0/Data/Advancedsourcetypeoverrides
in props.conf

[host::your_host]
TRANSFORMS-index = overrideindex

(a stanza for each host or you can use jolly chars)

in transforms.conf

[overrideindex]
DEST_KEY =_MetaData:Index
REGEX = .
FORMAT = my_new_index

Ciao.
Giuseppe

Re: Different IIS hosts logging to different indexes

wmyersas — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:54:39 GMT

You can use different server classes (with associated different inputs.conf) going to IIS servers of Type A vs Type B

Yes, you do need to maintain two (or more) UF apps, but you can get pretty granular on what endpoints show up in what server class

Re: Different IIS hosts logging to different indexes

woodcock — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 23:53:04 GMT

You should not be using separate indexers, you should be using separate index values on the same indexer and using roles-based access feature to control who gets to use/see what. Hopefully that is what you meant. You can do it the hard way at the indexers like this:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Forwarding/Routeandfilterdatad
Or you can do it the easy way by either:
1: creating 2 apps and deploying one with index=foo to 1 class of servers and the other with index=bar to the other class.
2: using a single app and creating a set of universal host-based stanzas to the appropriate UFs like this:

[host::foo1]
index = foo
[host::foo2]
index = foo
[host::foo3]
index = foo
[host::foo4]
index = foo
[host::bar1]
index = bar
[host::bar2]
index = bar
[host::bar3]
index = bar
[host::bar4]
index = bar

Re: Different IIS hosts logging to different indexes

wmyersas — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 23:05:03 GMT

OP said "indexes", not "indexers"

Re: Different IIS hosts logging to different indexes

woodcock — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:22:08 GMT

I think somebody edited and fixed it.