topic Re: Windows Forwarder --> Linux "Indexer" - How do I choose what index to put the forwarded data in? in Getting Data In

Windows Forwarder --> Linux "Indexer" - How do I choose what index to put the forwarded data in?

AaronAnderson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:20:35 GMT

I'm running a Splunk instance on a beefy linux system that has all of my indexes.

I had to add a windows forwarder to collect windows event logs. I am forwarding this data to my linux receiver.

On the receiver, I have an index called "PCIEventLogs"

How do I configure this to store specific forwarded data to that index?

kristian_kolb — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:45:39 GMT

That is configured in the inputs.conf file on the forwarder. You probably have something like this there, unless you're doing it over WMI

[WinEventLog:Security]
disabled = 0
index = PCIEventLogs

This is where you specify what index to use. Note that the index must already exist on the receiving indexer(s).

See the documentation for inputs.conf and for Getting Data In

Hope this helps,

Kristian