https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268580#M8078 <P>Hi,</P> <P>We would like to use splunk to monitor our ETL informatica logs.. we have more than 1000 wfs running, and its difficult to maintain different logs folders and maintain different drives.. </P> <P>After getting to know about wonders of Splunk, we would like to integrate informatica and direct logs to SPlunk..</P> <P>Can someone tell if this is possible ? if Yes, how?</P> <P>also, can you confirm if Splunk has any limitation on the file types it cannot montior? say .bin files? </P> <P>our informatica logs come in .bin format...</P> <P>regards,<BR /> DG</P> Mon, 28 Mar 2016 05:53:10 GMT Durga_Amaraneni 2016-03-28T05:53:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268580#M8078 <P>Hi,</P> <P>We would like to use splunk to monitor our ETL informatica logs.. we have more than 1000 wfs running, and its difficult to maintain different logs folders and maintain different drives.. </P> <P>After getting to know about wonders of Splunk, we would like to integrate informatica and direct logs to SPlunk..</P> <P>Can someone tell if this is possible ? if Yes, how?</P> <P>also, can you confirm if Splunk has any limitation on the file types it cannot montior? say .bin files? </P> <P>our informatica logs come in .bin format...</P> <P>regards,<BR /> DG</P> Mon, 28 Mar 2016 05:53:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268580#M8078 Durga_Amaraneni 2016-03-28T05:53:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268581#M8079 <P>Hello</P> <P>Splunk can only read plain text files, if your logs are in binary format, you would need to convert them to text files, if you have an script to convert the format, the forwarder also can run it and index the outputs afterwards</P> <P>regards</P> Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:00:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268581#M8079 gfuente 2016-03-28T14:00:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268582#M8080 <P>Informatica 9 onwards, there is a command provided in command reference guide of informatica as:</P> <P>tail -n +1 -f LOG_FILENAME.bin | $INFA_HOME/server/bin/infacmd.sh convertlogfile -in /dev/stdin -fm text</P> <P>This will convert binary file into simple text.</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:43:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268582#M8080 naga2005 2020-09-29T11:43:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268583#M8081 <P>Will this send the output to a file which can then be read by splunk?</P> Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:31:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268583#M8081 jbuckner85 2017-06-14T19:31:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268584#M8082 <P>Heh. It has to send it somewhere, so in theory splunk could monitor that spot. </P> <P>However, in practice, I would bet that your Informatica DBA/sysadmin/security folks would all prefer to transfer it somewhere else rather than giving splunk direct access to a presumably sensitive location. </P> Thu, 15 Jun 2017 01:59:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Can-Splunk-monitor-informatica-logs-say-Session-or-workflow-logs/m-p/268584#M8082 DalJeanis 2017-06-15T01:59:01Z