https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitor-remote-directory-on-Windows-machine/m-p/318623#M5519 <P>I have a directory which is located on a Windows machine.<BR /> This directory contains a files and I'm particular interested of the content of those files.</P> <P>My Splunk Enterprise is running on a Linux machine btw.</P> <P>I got some data in using the Splunk Web UI but it seems that he's not monitoring all the time, it seems only once when I created the input..<BR /> All the examples I find related to putting the config manually in the inputs.conf file, seems to be related to Unix machines -&gt; '/home/..something' but I need to monitor something like 'F:\Logs' and no idea how to write that in the inputs.conf.</P> <P>Some questions<BR /> 1. How can I do this the best?<BR /> 2. What configuration is needed on the Enterprise server and UF?<BR /> 3. The goal is eventually to put certain traffic on a dashboard. We want to show on a worldmap where and when people are making certain calls...</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:49:01 GMT bwouters 2017-12-04T13:49:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitor-remote-directory-on-Windows-machine/m-p/318623#M5519 <P>I have a directory which is located on a Windows machine.<BR /> This directory contains a files and I'm particular interested of the content of those files.</P> <P>My Splunk Enterprise is running on a Linux machine btw.</P> <P>I got some data in using the Splunk Web UI but it seems that he's not monitoring all the time, it seems only once when I created the input..<BR /> All the examples I find related to putting the config manually in the inputs.conf file, seems to be related to Unix machines -&gt; '/home/..something' but I need to monitor something like 'F:\Logs' and no idea how to write that in the inputs.conf.</P> <P>Some questions<BR /> 1. How can I do this the best?<BR /> 2. What configuration is needed on the Enterprise server and UF?<BR /> 3. The goal is eventually to put certain traffic on a dashboard. We want to show on a worldmap where and when people are making certain calls...</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:49:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitor-remote-directory-on-Windows-machine/m-p/318623#M5519 bwouters 2017-12-04T13:49:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitor-remote-directory-on-Windows-machine/m-p/318624#M5520 <P>You have it right:</P> <PRE><CODE>[monitor://F:\Path\To\YourFileHere.log] index=YourIndexHere sourcetype=YourSourcetypeHere </CODE></PRE> Tue, 05 Dec 2017 02:06:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitor-remote-directory-on-Windows-machine/m-p/318624#M5520 woodcock 2017-12-05T02:06:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitor-remote-directory-on-Windows-machine/m-p/318625#M5521 <P>Ok, so you can put it literally <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span> Good to know! Thanks</P> Tue, 05 Dec 2017 07:11:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitor-remote-directory-on-Windows-machine/m-p/318625#M5521 bwouters 2017-12-05T07:11:13Z