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Can light forwarder poll WMI information for the Windows app?

cdavidy
Explorer

I am currently using an index server on Windows to poll other Windows servers for WMI information for the Windows app. Can/shold this be done by using light forwarders on those servers?

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hulahoop
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The light forwarders support scripted inputs. WMI is collected via script (splunk-wmi.py) so you should be okay

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